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But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.
Topic: Conscience
Author: Lord Byron
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Thomas Alva Edison
There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
Topic: Endurance
Author: Henry Tuckerman
I die hard but am not afraid to go.
Topic: US Presidents
Author: George Washington
Business dispatched is business well done, But business hurried is business ill done.
Topic: Business
Author: Edward George Bulwer
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Topic: Victory
Author: Edmund Burke
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
Topic: Decisions
Author: James Callaghan
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
Topic: Courage
Author: John Wayne
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Latin Proverb
Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs; But there are forms which Time to touch forbears. And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.
Topic: Youth
Author: Lord Byron
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Topic: Fanatics
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
Topic: Bees
Author: George Herbert
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.
Topic: Wisdom
Author: Bible
Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
Topic: Ability
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Somebody once figured out that we have 35 million laws trying to enforce 10 commandments.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in us, and who lives our life: and do the greatest things as though they were little and easy, because of His omnipotence.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Blaise Pascal
A liar should have a good memory.
Topic: Lying
Author: Quintilian
Commemoration of Wilson Carlile, Priest, Founder of the Church Army, 1942 Few have defined what free will is, although it repeatedly occurs in the writings of all. Origen seems to have put forward a definition generally agreed upon among ecclesiastical writers when he said that it is a faculty of the reason to distinguish between good and evil, a faculty of the will to choose one or the other. Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Topic: Christianity
Author: John Calvin
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Topic: Appearance
Author: Latin Proverb
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Topic: Argument
Author: Victor Hugo