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How chang'd since last her speaking eye Glanc'd gladness round the glitt'ring room, Where high-born men were proud to wait-- Where Beauty watched to imitate.
Topic: Change
Author: Lord Byron
It is not the position, but the disposition.
Author: J E Dinger
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.
Topic: Misery
Author: George Eliot
Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
Topic: Man
A man can die but once. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.
The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
Topic: Nature
Author: Sarah Brown
Turn over a new leaf.
Author: Edmund Burke
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.
Topic: Evening
People would enjoy life more if, once they got what they wanted, they could remember how much they wanted it.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Compromise: the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
A dancer goes quick on her beautiful legs; a duck goes quack on her beautiful eggs.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, businesswise?.
Author: Bruce Burton
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Topic: Greatness
Author: George Eliot
, Self Empowerment Self-empowerment - that's learning to respect other people's music, but dance to your own tune as you master harmony within yourself. -Doc Childre.
Author: Doc Childre
Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.
A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
Topic: Death
Author: Seneca
The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.
Topic: Energy
Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert.
Topic: Justice
Author: Aristotle
Strong are her sons, though rocky are her shores.
Topic: Strength
Author: Homer
To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.
Topic: Name