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In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.
Topic: Paradise
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Topic: Music
Author: Victor Hugo
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.
Topic: Retirement
The quantity of books in a person's library, is often a cloud of witnesses to the ignorance of the owner.
Topic: Libraries
He hath indeed better bettered expectation. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.
Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
Topic: Knowledge
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
Topic: Education
Author: Robert E Lee
Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy. - Paradoxes.
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
Topic: Maturity
Goths are sort of like mimes with long hair and trenchcoats. Neat.
Topic: Mimes
Author: Adam Rixey
The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
Topic: Fortune
Author: Bible
It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm further off from heaven Than when I was a boy.
Topic: Ignorance
Author: Thomas Hood
The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. - Thomas Love Peacock,
Topic: Sheep
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Topic: Government
Author: William Penn
Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.
The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
Topic: Advice
Author: Roy L Hunt
Even if I'm not asleep, that doesn't mean I'm awake.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.
Topic: Religion
Author: D H Lawrence
To do nothing is also a good remedy.
Topic: Advice
Author: Hippocrates
Why care for grammar as long as we are good?
Topic: Grammar
Author: Artemus Ward