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But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annex'd.
Topic: Crime
Author: William Cowper
Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Andy Warhol
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Topic: Growth
Author: Thomas Huxley
Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
Topic: Nature
Author: Francis Beaumont
Non-violence is the article of faith.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
When computers are networked, their power multiplies geometrically. Not only can people share all that information inside their machines, but they can reach out and instantly tap the power of other machines , essentially making the entire network their computer. Peter Drucker -Scott McNeely.
Topic: Computer Science
Author: Scott Mcneely
To have begun is to have done half the task; dare to be wise.
Topic: Beginnings
Author: Horace
I am for Peace, for Retrenchment, and for Reform,--thirty years ago the great watchwords of the great Liberal Party.
Topic: Government
Author: John Bright
When my three-year-old son opened the birthday gift from his grandmother, he discovered a water pistol. He squealed with delight and headed for the nearest sink. I was not so pleased. I turned to Mom and said, "I'm surprised at you. Don't you remember how we used to drive you crazy with water guns?" Mom smiled and then replied . . . "I remember.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.
Topic: Meeting
Author: Matthew Arnold
You can be right or you can be happy.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Gerald G Jampolsky
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
Topic: Difficulties
Author: John Henry Newman
Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting.
Topic: Relationships
Author: Mike Binder
Next these learn'd Jonson in this list I bring Who had drunk deep of the Pierian Spring.
Topic: Learning
Author: Michael Drayton
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
Topic: Pleasure
Author: Marina Warner
What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?
Topic: Gold
Author: Thomas Gray
The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance; that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Evelyn Underhill