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Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated.
Topic: Suspicion
The first condition for the establishment of perpetual peace is the general adoption of the principles of laissez-faire capitalism.
One man has enthusiasm !0 minutes, another !0 days, but it is the man who has it !0 years who makes a success of his life.
Vanity, like murder, will out.
Topic: Vanity
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.
Topic: Buying
I did my nurse's training at a hospital in Liverpool, England. My fellow students and I had little money for meals, so we ate the awful food provided at the hospital complex, and sometimes kindly visitors would give us some of the treats they had brought for patients who had not wanted to eat them. One night a woman brought a pie to the kitchen and said to me, "Would you eat this up, love?" Another student and I devoured every delicious crumb!Soon our benefactor returned, however, and asked, "Is me 'usband's pie 'ot yet, dearie?".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love and mercy of God.
Author: Cjb
Under spreading ensigns moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion.
Topic: Flags
Author: John Milton
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action, and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Topic: Advice
As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
Topic: Victory
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Topic: Traveling
O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people.
Topic: War
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere--"Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess That the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
Topic: Courage
Wisely and slow. They stumble that run fast.
Topic: Haste
Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Topic: Humility
Author: Thomas Moore
After hearing two eyewitness accounts of the same accident, you begin to wonder about history.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
Topic: Innocence
Author: Seneca
Parent of golden dreams, Romance! Auspicious queen of childish joys, Who lead'st along, in airy dance, Thy votive train of girls and boys.
Topic: Romance
Author: Lord Byron
There is no one greater than the onewho realizes and admits his own mistake.
Author: Kazi Shams
I don't have a solution but I admire the problem.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown