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FOUR FLOWERS The Sun Arose in Morning Glory with His Goldenrod Wanding Violet to Rose .
Topic: Brevity
The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.
Topic: Patience
Human rights rest on human dignity. The dignity of man is an ideal worth fighting for and worth dying for.
Topic: Dignity
He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.
Topic: Life
Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.
Author: Emilie Cady
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.
Topic: Rest
Author: Mark Twain
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says...I'll try again tommorrow.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Destroy his fib, or sophistry--in vain! The creature's at his dirty work again.
Topic: Wickedness
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -Sir Winston Churchill.
Phone for the fish-knives, Norman As Cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I must have things daintily served.
Topic: Fish
A person must stand very tall to see their own fate.
Topic: Fate
Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee, And was the safeguard of the West.
Topic: Venice
The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Topic: Basketball
Author: Bobby Knight
The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.
Topic: War
Author: Thomas Vian
They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing; Whereas reproof, obedient and in order, Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.
Topic: Flattery
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Topic: Zeal
Author: Hosea Ballou
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.
Topic: Apparel
If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.
Topic: Eating