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There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Ever notice that people never say "It's only a game" when they're winning?
Topic: Winning
Author: Ivern Ball
Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.
Topic: Providence
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast; And the woods against a stormy sky, Their giant branches toss'd.
Topic: Ocean
Darkness yields to starlight, to the light of the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their number than the greatness of a man is determined by his height.
Topic: Country
Author: Victor Hugo
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
Topic: Inflation
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Don't get mad, get even.
Topic: Revenge
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Topic: Age
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
Woman, amends may never come to late.
Topic: Repentance
Author: Thomas Lodge
Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.
Topic: Land
Author: Aldo Leopold
Calamity is man's true touch-stone. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Topic: Misfortune
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.