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Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.
Topic: Enemy
Author: Lord Halifax
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Topic: Age
If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Topic: Change
it would not be fun when life is so easy.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give. -Damien Hess.
Topic: Service
Author: Damien Hess
He loved the twilight that surrounds The border-land of old romance; Where glitter hauberk, helm, and lance, And banner waves, and trumpet sounds, And ladies ride with hawk on wrist, And mighty warriors sweep along, Magnified by the purple mist, The dusk of centuries and of song.
Topic: Romance
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.
Topic: Music
Author: Bible
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us!
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Topic: War
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.
Topic: Rivers
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Topic: Knowledge
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Topic: Sin
Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
Topic: Martyrs
In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.
Topic: Sports
If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.
If I play my best, I can win anywhere in the world against anybody.
Author: Ray Floyd
Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209 We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.
Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony.
Topic: Ridicule
Author: Horace
Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
Topic: Control
Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.
Topic: Hypocrisy