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To a valet no man is a hero.
Topic: Heroes
I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Topic: Rain
Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
Author: Anonymous
A Hero is one who hangs on one minute longer.
Author: Unknown
The lights are on but no one's home.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
Topic: Fame
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped, by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou, encouraged, they perfume life, discouraged, they poison it.
While Washington's a watchword, such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air.
Topic: Washington
Author: Lord Byron
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it
Topic: Simplicity
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Topic: Worry
Author: Robert Frost
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.
Topic: Study
Children are natural mimics: they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners. -Anonymous.
Topic: Parenting
Author: Anonymous
Anybody can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, and to the right degree, and at the right time, and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Topic: Anger
Author: Aristotle
In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist.
Topic: Mind
Author: Cicero
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Topic: Democracy
Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Topic: Enthusiasm
If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England's, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.
Topic: England
If God bores you, tell Him that He bores you, that you prefer the vilest amusements to His presence, that you only feel at your ease when you are far from Him.
Music hath charm to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
Topic: Charm