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It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. ~Buddha
God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases. ~Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval (God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.) God loves an idle rainbow, no less than laboring seas. ~Ralph Hodgson
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. ~Omar Bradley
Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. ~Andy Grove
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time. ~John Lubbock
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. ~Elbert Hubbard
If the anti-abortion movement took a tenth of the energy they put into noisy theatrics and devoted it to improving the lives of children who have been born into lives of poverty, violence, and neglect, they could make a world shine. ~Michael Jay Tucker
My blood type is Folgers. ~Author Unknown
Many a person has held close, throughout their entire lives, two friends that always remained strange to one another, because one of them attracted by virtue of similarity, the other by difference. ~Emil Ludwig
When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell the fire. ~Author Unknown
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ~William Shakespeare
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throats. ~Martin H. Fischer
Success has made failures of many men. ~Cindy Adams
Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. ~Henry IV of France
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)
The whole theory of the universe is directed unerringly to one single individual - namely to You. ~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, 1892
In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. ~Henry Van Dyke
Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)
You men are not our protectors.... If you were, who would there be to protect us from? ~Mary Edwards Walker
