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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Antonio Machado
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives.
Topic: Hippies
Author: June Jordan
Calamity is man's true touch-stone. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
Topic: Misfortune
Author: Francis Beaumont
There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
Topic: Treason
Author: John Lord Obrian
That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner, And presently repair to Crosby House; Where--after I have solemnly interred At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king-- And wet his grave with my repentant tears-- I will with all expedient duty see you.
Topic: Repentance
Author: William Shakespeare
The law is not a "light" for you or any man to see by; the law is not an instrument of any kind. The law is a causeway upon which so long as he keeps to it a citizen may walk safely.
Topic: Law
Author: Robert Bolt
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
Topic: Cliches
Author: John Ruskin
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying!
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Woody Allen
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream. And I seek then in vain by the meadow and stream.
Topic: Absence
Author: George Linley
The end must justify the means.
Topic: End
Author: Matthew Prior
Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
Topic: Existence
Author: Joseph Cook
My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Kahlil Gibran
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Topic: Principles
Author: Dwight D Eisenhower
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.
Topic: Pride
Author: C S Lewis
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Topic: Geography
Author: Noelie Altito
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: C Stacey Woods
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
Topic: Intentions
Author: George Bernard Shaw