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Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise, And interpret your device, . . . . All things wait for and divine him,-- How shall I dare to malign him?
Topic: Gods
There are some who bear a grudge even to those that do them good.
Topic: Grudges
Author: Bidpai
The cautious seldom err.
Topic: Errors
Author: Confucius
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
In teaching the medical student the primary requisite is to keep him awake.
Carry on, carry on, for the men and boys are gone, But the furrow shan't lie fallow while the women carry on.
Topic: War
Author: Janet Begbie
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.
Topic: Rights
The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
Topic: Faith
Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397 Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship -- and not as ends in themselves.
Live each day as if it were your last, but learn from each day as if you will live forever.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Topic: History
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.
Topic: Wealth
Author: Horace
It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
Topic: Vice
Author: Hosea Ballou
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Topic: Cowards
There is nothing enduring in life for a women except what she builds in a man's heart.
Youth is wasted on the young.
Topic: Age
It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to compel the White House to substantiate its claims. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions. ~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us.
Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.
Topic: Peace
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning "Good morning" at total strangers.
Topic: Smile
Author: Maya Angelou