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Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.
Topic: Imitation
Author: Edward G Bulwer Lytton
Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.
Topic: Larks
Author: Rev James Hurdis
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Topic: Opportunity
Author: Bible
Fear of success can also be tied into the idea that success means someone else's loss. Some people are unconsciously guilty because they believe their victories are coming at the expense of another.
Topic: Negativity
Author: Joan C Harvey
The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature - nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.
Topic: Nature
Author: Loudon Wainwright
Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority.
Topic: Authority
Author: William Shakespeare
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
Topic: Nature
Author: P D James
Rigid judgmental opinions can block descent of Spirit's pinions.
Topic: Prejudice
Author: Saiom Shriver
Nothing common can seem worthy of you.
Topic: Worth
Author: Augustus Caesar
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, Shake well before using. That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
Topic: Advice
Author: Vance Havner
One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duct tape to make them stop.
Topic: Building
Author: G M Weilacher
Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
Topic: Haste
Author: William Shakespeare
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Topic: Loss
Author: Seneca
The mountain was in labour, and Jove was afraid, but it brought forth a mouse.
Topic: Mountains
Author: William Shakespeare
I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
Topic: Art and Artists
Author: Roy Lichtenstein
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Topic: Bribery
Author: George Washington
Everything in excess is opposed to nature.
Topic: Excess
Author: Hippocrates
I would rather be able to appreciate things I cannot have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.
Topic: Taste
Author: Elbert Hubbard
We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Martha Graham
The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from the red people.
Topic: Politics Government
Author: Hair