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Nor waste their sweetness in the desert air.
Topic: Sweetness
The march of intellect.
Topic: Intellect
Then grew a wrinkle on fair Venus' brow, The amber sweet of love is turn'd to gall! Gloomy was Heaven; bright Phoebus did avow He would be coy, and would not love at all; Swearing no greater mischief could be wrought, Than love united to a jealous thought.
Topic: Jealousy
People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.
Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
Author: Anonymous
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Topic: Evil
A coward boasting of his courage may deceive strangers, but he is a laughing-stock to those who know him.
Topic: Cowards
Author: Phaedrus
Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers-- "Where?"
Topic: Echo
Author: Lord Byron
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Topic: Happiness
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.
Topic: Prudence
Author: Cicero
In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force. A malicious enemy is better than a clumsy friend.
Topic: Enemy
The only way to have a friend is to be one. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Topic: Friendship
I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
Topic: Prejudice
Language is the dress of thought.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Johnson
For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?.
Author: Jimmy Dean
. . . one of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes -- the values, ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.
Topic: Value
My pride fell with my fortunes. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.
The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.