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If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed; If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.
Topic: Parting
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
Topic: Marriage
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
Author: Pilgrims
A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.
Topic: Reflection
Author: Edward Young
Whose words all ears took captive. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Author: Sun Tzu
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
Topic: Absurdity
Some hearts are hidden, some have not a heart.
Topic: Heart
Beware the fury of a patient man.
Topic: Patience
Author: John Dryden
I quickly laugh at everything, for fear of having to cry.
Topic: Laughter
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. -Pearl S. Buck.
Topic: Youth
Author: Pearl S Buck
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
Author: Anonymous
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.
Topic: Neighbors
to be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
Topic: Advice
Author: Ee Cummings
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Topic: Action
Our life's a flying shadow, God's the pole, The index pointing at Him is our soul; Death the horizon, when our sun is set, Which will through Christ a resurrection get.
The sacred Dove a quill did lend From her high-soaring wing.
Topic: Pen
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Topic: Beauty
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Author: Zig Ziglar
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.