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Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.
Topic: Grave
Author: Francis Beaumont
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want to they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Margaret Young
Money is like unspreadable butter, you try and spread it but it all lumps together at one end of the bread.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a coward.
Topic: Compromise
Author: Reginald W Kaufman
The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day.
Topic: Christmas
Author: Henry Vaughan
In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.
Topic: Waking
Author: Mary Wilson Little
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Anonymous
The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and "mangled mind" leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Elizabeth Drew
Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
Topic: Courage
Author: Michael Pritchard
When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.
Topic: Sports
Author: Earl Woods
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Topic: History
Author: John F Kennedy
Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.
Topic: Desire
Author: William Shakespeare
There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
Topic: Freedom Of The Press
Author: Julia W
This solemn moment of triumph, one of the greatest moments in the history of the world . . . this great hour which rings in a new era . . . and which is going to lift up humanity to a higher plane of existence for all the ages of the future.
Topic: Prophecy
Author: David Lloyd George
There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.
Topic: Hope
Author: Erich Fromm
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Topic: Actions
Author: Dorothy Broude
He who treads softly goes far.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Chinese Proverb
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
Topic: Finance and Economics
Author: John G Pollard