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He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
We judge others by their actions; we judge ourselves by our intentions.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there they found,-- Freedom to worship God.
Topic: Worship
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
Topic: Death
The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.
Topic: Negativity
Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Homer
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.
Topic: Movies
Company, villanous company, hath been the spoil of me. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Topic: Growth
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Topic: Politics
A friend is like a bowl of Jelly Beans... Good to the bottom of the bowl.
The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge.
Topic: Wind
Author: John Dryden
We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
Topic: Nature
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Topic: Treason
I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Topic: Dance
Author: Fred Astaire
To appreciate heaven well 'Tis good for a man to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
Topic: Heaven
Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.
Topic: Money
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Topic: Nature
Author: Aristotle
Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Fournier
And be the Spartan's epitaph on me-- "Sparta hath many a worthier son than he."
Topic: Epitaphs
Author: Lord Byron