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I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
Topic: Cliches
Author: John Wesley
Scoff not at the natural defects of any which are not in their power to amend. It is cruel to beat a cripple with his own crutches!
Topic: Ridicule
Author: Thomas Fuller
No flowery road leads to glory.
Topic: Glory
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
A different world cannot be built by indifferent people.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Peter Marshall
There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!
Topic: Babyhood
Author: George Washington Cable
If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.
Topic: Law
Author: Arthur Bugs Baer
Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 I think I have never heard a sermon preached on the story of Mary and Martha that did not attempt, somehow, somewhere, to explain away its text. Mary's, of course, was the better part -- the Lord said so, and we must not precisely contradict Him. But we will be careful not to despise Martha. No doubt, He approved of her, too. We could not get on without her, and indeed, having paid lip-service to God's opinion, we must admit that we greatly prefer her, for Martha was doing a really feminine job, whereas Mary was just behaving like any other disciple; and that is a hard pill to swallow.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Dorothy L Sayers
He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, Cold and yet cheerful; messenger of grief Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.
Topic: Post
Author: William Cowper
Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died.
Topic: Epitaphs
Author: Alfred Austin
O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree? The eye that contemplates it well perceives Its glossy leaves Ordered by an Intelligence so wise As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.
Topic: Holly
Author: Robert Southey
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
Topic: Advice
Author: American Indian Proverb
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Topic: Shame
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever. - The Brook.
Topic: Literature
Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Topic: Courage
Author: Mike Ditka
In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Ludwig Von Mises
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Topic: Government
Author: Adlai E Stevenson
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
Topic: Dogs
Author: Christopher Morley