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You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever-- And it may be for a day and a night, And it well may be forever. But whether we meet or whether we part, A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart, On the ways we all are going! Here's luck! For we know not where we are going.
Topic: Toasts
Author: Richard Hovey
What seest thou else In the dark backward and abysm of time? -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart.
Topic: Destiny
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a fact, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Wayne Dyer
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Topic: Politics
Author: Paul Valery
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Topic: Injury
Author: Lord Chesterfield
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Topic: All About Love
Author: Dr Karl Menninger
The careful pilot of my proper woe.
Topic: Help
Author: Lord Byron
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
Topic: Choice
Author: R H Blyth
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Topic: Blood
Author: Maya Angelou
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Topic: Decisions
Author: John Morley
Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.
Topic: Government
Author: John Quincy Adams
There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.
Topic: Talent
Author: Aldous Huxley
Let us have faith that Right makes Might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Topic: Right
Author: Abraham Lincoln
After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.
Topic: World
Author: Bible
Every man has his price.
Topic: Bribery
Author: Sir Robert Walpole
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Topic: Books and Reading
Author: Amos Bronson Alcott