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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
Topic: Culture
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.
Topic: Friendship
Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
Topic: Greatness
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please.
Topic: Grace
Author: John Dryden
Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.
Topic: Evil
Author: Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau
Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240 He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Thomas Fuller
We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more. - The Writings of Madame Swetchine.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Madame Swetchine
God's patience is infinite. Men, like small kettles, boil quickly with wrath at the least wrong. Not so God. If God were as wrathful, the world would have been a heap of ruins long ago.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Sadhu Sundar Singh
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Topic: Salvation
Author: St Thomas Aquinas
When someone says, "do you want my opinion"?- it's always a negative one.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
Topic: Age
Author: William Shakespeare
Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Topic: Grace
Author: Jonathan Edwards
On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States. Of this he wrote to James Madison: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
Topic: US Presidents
Author: George Washington
Politeness is the art of choosing among one's real thoughts.
Topic: Courtesy
Author: Abel Stevens
When holy and devout religious men Are at their beads, 'tis much to draw them thence, So sweet is zealous contemplation.
Topic: Contemplation
Author: William Shakespeare
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
Topic: Genius
Author: Carl Sagan
I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will.
Topic: Tongue
Author: William Shakespeare
My love for you a yearling became many eons ago Saiom Shriver.
Topic: Love
Author: Saiom Shriver
My father was a minister. I had to make up for the lack of sin.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Londo Molari