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Call'd to the temple of impure delight He that abstains, and he alone, does right. If a wish wander that way, call it home; He cannot long be safe whose wishes roam.
Topic: Temperance
Author: William Cowper
Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it, For jealousy dislikes the world to know it.
Topic: Jealousy
Author: Lord Byron
Nay, 'tis in a manner done already; For many carriages he hath dispatched To the seaside, and put his cause and quarrel To the disposing of the cardinal; With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, If you think meet, this afternoon will post To consummate this business happily.
Topic: Livery
Author: William Shakespeare
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Topic: Thankfulness
Author: William Shakespeare
To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.
Topic: Affliction
Author: Benjamin Franklin
In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.
Topic: Force
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941 Anyone can lead a "prayer-life" -- that is, the sort of reasonable devotional life to which each is called by God. This only involves making a suitable rule and making up your mind to keep it however boring this may be.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Evelyn Underhill
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Topic: Understanding
Author: General Douglas MacArthur
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It is singular how soon we lose the impression of what ceases to be constantly before us. A year impairs, a luster obliterates. There is little distinct left without an effort of memory, then indeed the lights are rekindled for a moment -- but who can be sure that the Imagination is not the torch-bearer?
Topic: Memory
Author: Lord Byron
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
Topic: Cause
Author: William James
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. - Psychological Reflections.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: C G Jung
The important thing about women today is, as they get older, they still keep house. It's one reason why they don't die, but men die when they retire. Women just polish the teacups.
Topic: Housework
Author: Margaret Mead
We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.
Topic: Unity
Author: Benjamin Franklin
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
Topic: Motherhood
Author: Samuel Lover
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: David Lloyd George
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
Topic: Hope
Author: Goethe
E'en drunken Andrew felt the blow That innocence can give, When its resistless accents flow To bid affection live.
Topic: Innocence
Author: Robert Bloomfield