And if you mean to profit, learn to please.

For old age is not honored for length of time, or measured by number of years; but understanding is gray hair for anyone, and a blameless life is ripe old age.

As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

Bless the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretches out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind: Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire: Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

King of the peak and glacier, King of the cold, white scalps, He lifts his head at that close tread, The eagle of the Alps.

The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument of our wretchedness and of God's mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure.

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

When you forgive it takes you from the place of the victim to that of a victor.

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.

The Devil is an ass, I do acknowledge it.

For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught. -Baba Dioum.

Aim at heaven and you get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Did you ever hear anyone say "That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very dangerous to me?

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.

The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.

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