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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
Topic: October
Author: William Cullen Bryant
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: James Bryce
Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt.
Topic: Doubt
Author: William Shakespeare
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
Topic: History
Author: Rebecca West
Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
Topic: Revenge
Author: Samuel Johnson
I care not twopence.
Topic: Worth
Author: Francis Beaumont
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality
Topic: Achievement
Author: Carl Jung
War profiteer cartels and the Cheney Wolfowitz regime are called The United States by warwhore news teams. Everywhere including peace loving Schenectady the American people dislike such synecdoches.
Topic: Truth
Author: Saiom Shriver
What heart can think, or tongue express, The harm that groweth of idleness?
Topic: Idleness
Author: John Heywood
All this, and Heaven too!
Topic: Heaven
Author: Philip Henry
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Cheers
When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.
Topic: Gambling
Author: Dean Martin
Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible.
Topic: Memory
Author: General Enrico Cialdini
'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell. On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depths of the ocean its presence confessed.
Topic: Heaven
Author: Catherine M Fanshawe
Observe the opportunity.
Topic: Opportunity
Author: Bible