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There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Mother Theresa
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
Author: Alexander Pope
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Forgiveness
Author: 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
Author: Mrs Felicia D Hemans
Darkness yields to starlight, to the light of the rising sun, and to the light of the soul.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Dennis Kucinich
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.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Phillips Brooks
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.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: William Feather
Inflation is the senility of democracies.
Topic: Inflation
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
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.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Robert A Heinlein
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Topic: Mathematics
Author: Max Wilhelm Dehn
Don't get mad, get even.
Topic: Revenge
Author: Robert F Kennedy
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Topic: Age
Author: Martin Buxbaum
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.
Topic: Satisfaction
Author: Jean De La Fontaine
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
Author: Francis Beaumont
The sons of Edward sleep in Abraham's bosom. -King Richard III. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare