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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
Topic: Success
Author: B C Forbes
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Topic: Advice
Author: Erica Jong
God comes to the hungry in the form of food.
Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Topic: Silence
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Author: Gandhi
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
Topic: Evil
Author: W H Auden
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Author: Alan Paton
There can be no church in which the demon will not have his chapel.
Topic: Churches
A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.
Topic: Literature
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Topic: Literature
Author: Montesquieu
Traveler there is no trail you blaze the trail as you travel.
Topic: Cliches
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,
Topic: Reading
No one rejoices more in revenge than woman.
Topic: Revenge
Author: Juvenal
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical
Topic: Sports
A computer will not make a good manager out of a bad manager. It makes a good manager better faster and a bad manager worse faster.
Author: Edward Esber
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
Topic: Sarcasm
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Author: Glenn Clark
Christ says that not alone in the Church is there forgiveness of sins, but that where two or three are gathered together in His name they shall have the right to promise to each other comfort and the forgiveness of sins.
All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.
Topic: Ability
Author: Anonymous