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Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Austin Omalley
Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!
Topic: Hope
Author: Thomas Campbell
Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.
Topic: Nature
Author: Sara Teasdale
'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.
Topic: Fate
Author: John Dryden
All reformers are bachelors.
Topic: Reform
Author: George A Moore
Half the costs of illness are wasted on conditions that could be prevented. from the book"Total Wellness." -Dr. Joseph Pizzorno.
Topic: Health
Author: Dr Joseph Pizzorno
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Robert Half
people who are willing to kill animals just to satisfy their greed for meat are ultimately, really, killing themselves by their cruelty, that is God at work
Topic: Animals
Author: Fleur Wiorkowski
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forewards. -Soren Kierkegaard.
Topic: Age
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.
Topic: Killing
Author: Elizabeth Gould Davis
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship
Topic: Imitation
Author: Wendell Phillips
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
Topic: Peace
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.
Topic: Matrimony
Author: Charles Churchill
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
Topic: Unhappiness
Author: Don Herold
He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
Topic: Sympathy
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
She may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Topic: Ruin
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: James Joyce
When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole family.
Topic: Education
Author: Robert M MacIver
The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.
Topic: Amusement
Author: Joshua Reynolds