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An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Charles Kettering
The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of a remarkable Christian forbearance among men.
Topic: Boys
Author: Ambrose Bierce
EPIPHANY If on our daily course our mind Be set to hallow all we find, New treasures still of countless price God will provide for sacrifice. The trivial round, the common task Will furnish all we ought to ask; Room to deny ourselves -- a road To bring us daily nearer God.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Keble
They died hard, those savage men-like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.
Topic: History
Author: Gen Douglas Macarthur
Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.
Topic: Faith
Author: John Donne
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: David Lloyd George
And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come.
Topic: Butterflies
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners. •E. Joseph Cossman Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.
Topic: Banks
Author: E Joseph Cossman
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Topic: Friendship
Author: William Butler Yeats
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
Topic: Awareness
Author: Paul Cezanne
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Topic: Sensibility
Author: Thomas Moore
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
Topic: Education
Author: Anatole France
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Nelson Mendela
There still remains to mortify a wit The many headed monster of the pit.
Topic: Acting
Author: Alexander Pope
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Topic: May
Author: William Shakespeare
I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Clara Barton
The rising world of waters dark and deep.
Topic: Water
Author: John Milton
...passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Eric Hoffer