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God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
My country is the world, and my religion to do good.
Topic: Patriotism
Author: Thomas Paine
Find an aim in life before you run out of ammunition. -Arnold Glasow.
Topic: Age
Author: Arnold Glasow
Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.
Topic: Literature
Author: Anon
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!
Topic: Birds
Author: Richard Henry Dana
Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
Topic: Thrushes
Author: John Banister Tabb
Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.
Topic: Faults
Author: Christopher Codrington
The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
Topic: Cause
Author: Ed Howe
Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: R H Blyth
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Topic: Providence
Author: Alexander Pope
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Topic: Miscellaneous
Author: Goethe
The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become.
Topic: Inspirational
Author: Ben Herbster
The smallest errors are always the best.
Topic: Errors
Author: Jean Baptiste Poquelin
It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?
Topic: Public Speaking
Author: Eileen Aitkins
One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.
Topic: Death Immortality
Author: Hazrat Ali
In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
Topic: Uniqueness
Author: Coco Chanel
As innocent as a new-laid egg.
Topic: Innocence
Author: William S Gilbert
Since yesterday I have been in Alcala. Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa, When that dull distance shall no more divide us; And I no more shall scale thy wall by night To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.
Topic: Expectation
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
