Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.
· Francis Bacon
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Obedience ... allows us to reach a higher and more spiritual level in life, using our agency to do the will of the Lord.
· Athos M. Amorim
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A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
· Proverb
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But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
· Alan Watts
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Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine.
· Ben Jonson
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Sleep is better than medicine.
· Proverb
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A good way to threaten somebody is to light a stick of dynamite. Then you call the guy and hold the burning fuse up to the phone. 'Hear that?' you say, 'That's dynamite, baby.'
· Jack Handey
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Although my neighbors are all barbarians, And you, you are a thousand miles away, There are always two cups on my table.
· Proverb
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'May I beg from people, O Messenger of God, when necessitous?' Muhammad said, 'Do not beg unless absolutely compelled, then only from the virtuous.'
· Prophet Muhammad
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The university brings out all abilities including incapability.
· Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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Go up, thou bald head.
· The Bible
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Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.
· Matthew Henry
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Happiness is the soul's joy in the possession of the intangible.
· William George Jordan
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I am the State.
· Louis XIV
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Why are you unhappy? because 99% of everything you do is for your self and there isn't one!
· Wei Wu Wei
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It lies around us like a cloud A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.
· Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Nine-tenths of our sickness can be prevented by right thinking plus right hygiene nine-tenths of it!
· Henry Miller
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, And bring tears from the eyes of woman.
· Beethoven
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There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.
· Norman Vincent Peale
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Hunger is the teacher of the arts and the bestower of invention. Magister artis ingenique largitor Venter
· Aulus Persius Flaccus
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Chocolate is good for three things. Two of 'em cannot be mentioned on public television.
· Unknown
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It's not what you know, it's how fast you can find it.
· Proverb
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In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.
· Antonio Porchia
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Despair is the conclusion of fools.
· Benjamin Disraeli
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The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
· Stephen R. Covey
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Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
· Owen Feltham
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I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.
· Francis Bacon
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Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.
· Vincent Van Gogh
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Make yourself free from self at one stroke! Like a sword be without trace of soft iron; Like a steel mirror, scour off all rust with contrition.
· Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
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The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
· Marcus Aurelius Antonin
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
· Barbra Streisand
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Quien a buen arbol se arrima, buena sombra le cobija. He who gets close to a good tree, will have a good shade.
· Proverb
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
· Hosea Ballou
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A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, 'I do not believe you can do as much.' 'True,' said he, 'but every goose can.'
· Plutarch
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We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.
· Samuel Rogers
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Its just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
· Muhammad Ali
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I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. [Chief economist of the World Bank,explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third World countries.]
· Lawrence Summers
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
· Francis Bacon
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One's desire to be attractive and happy And to enjoy the pleasures of wealth, Is like the foolishness of a drunken person, Who, though healthy, must be carried.
· Nagarjuna
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CHRISTIAN, n. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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The firstling of the infant year.
· Thomas Carew
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All your problems, discouragements, and heartaches are, in truth, great opportunities in disguise.
· Og Mandino
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Faith will turn any course, light any path, relieve any distress, bring joy out of sorrow, peace out of strife, friendship out of enmity, heaven out of hell. Faith is God at work.
· F. L. Holmes
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Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.
· Charles Caleb Colton
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Things work out best for those who make the best of the way things work out.
· Unknown
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Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
· Unknown
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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
· Minna Thomas Antrim
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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
· Richard David Bach
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'She would have been a good woman,' The Misfit said, 'if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.'
· Mary Flannery O'Connor
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We weren't pushing Black is beautiful. We just showed it.
· Katherine Dunham
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The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter in the eye.
· Charlotte Bront
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
· Francois Voltaire
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A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.
· Aristotle
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DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command.
· Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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Fly not yet; 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.
· Charles Lamb
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I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
· Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.
· W. L. George
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You cant separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
· Malcolm X
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Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it only takes one to burn it.
· Madeleine Bingham
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There's a difference between opinion and conviction. My opinion is something that is true for me personally; my conviction is something that is true for everybody in my opinion.
· Sylvia Cordwood
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If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
· Robert Southey
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No more slave States; no slave Territories.
· Salmon P. Chase
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... there is such a thing as perfection ... and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....
· Richard David Bach
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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.
· John Dryden
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This hand, unfriendly to tyrants, Seeks with the sword placid repose under liberty.
· Algernon Sidney
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Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
· Homer
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I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so In whining poetry.
· John Donne
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Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.
· Sara Teasdale
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Some people come into our lives, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never the same.
· Franz Peter Schubert
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Some people cause happiness wherever they go. Some people cause happiness whenever they go.
· Oscar Wilde
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Anatomy is destiny.
· Sigmund Freud
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For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.
· Neal A. Maxwell
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'Tis against some men's principle to pay interest, and seems against others' interest to pay the principle.
· Benjamin Franklin
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I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am.
· Bleiberg and Leubling
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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave' |