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We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Edwin Markham
Happy thou that learnest from another's griefs, not to subject thyself to the same.
Topic: Example
Author: Albius Tibullus
I am an ass indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. When I am cold, he heats me with beating; when I am warm, he cools me with beating.
Topic: Service
Author: William Shakespeare
A mother who is really a mother is never free.
Topic: Mothers
Author: Honore De Balzac
Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, No winter in thy year.
Topic: Cuckoos
Author: John Logan
Sweet is revenge--especially to women.
Topic: Revenge
Author: Lord Byron
Better to see the face than to hear the name.
Topic: Name
Author: Zen Saying
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
Topic: Justification
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God--the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures; I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward, Nature's good And God's.
Topic: Nature
Author: Robert Browning
Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.
Topic: Content
Author: Bible
I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Katherine Mansfield.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Katherine Mansfield
It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.
Topic: Giving
Author: Richard Braunstein
Hey you, don't tell me there's no hope at all Together we stand, divided we fall.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Pink Floyd
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to attain excellence. To discover what a man truly craves but knows he cannot have we must find the field in which he advocates absolute equality. By this test Communists are frustrated Capitalists.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Eric Hoffer
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours, that are but skin-deep.
Topic: Temptation
Author: Matthew Henry
Children in the back seats of cars cause accidents, but accidents in the back seats of cars cause children.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Only a few industrious Scots perhaps, who indeed are dispersed over the face of the whole earth. But as for them, there are no greater friends to Englishmen and England, when they are out on't, in the world, than they are. And for my own part, I would a hundred thousand of them were there for we are all one countrymen now, ye know, and we should find ten times more comfort of them there than we do here.
Topic: Scotland
Author: George Chapman
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favour. Andrea Ayvazian -Robert Frost .
Topic: Change
Author: Robert Frost