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If there were dreams to sell, what would you buy?
Topic: Death
Author: Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Owen
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Topic: Passion
Author: Seneca
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.
Topic: Proverbial Phrases
Author: Robert Burton
I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
Topic: Secrets
Author: Walter Winchell
Laughter is the jam on the toast of life; it adds flavour, keeps it from becoming too dry, and makes it easier to swallow.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Follow your own star!
Topic: Individuality
Author: Dante
Mine host of the Garter. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad.
Topic: Humor
Author: Jack Handey
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Topic: Youth
Author: Francis Bacon
I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.
Topic: Immortality
Author: James Drummond Burns
Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee.
Topic: Apparel
Author: William Shakespeare
When I am at Rome, I fast on a Saturday: when I am at Milan I do not. Do the same. Follow the custom of the church where you are.
Topic: Rome
Author: Saint Ambrose
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
Topic: Despair
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.
Topic: Liberty
Author: Louis D Brandeis
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Topic: Virtue
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Topic: Progress
Author: Henry George