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If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.^    Horace

A fool sees not the same tree  that a wise man sees.^    William Blake

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.^    Grantland Rice

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!  [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno    Si leggesse in fronte scritto,      Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,        Ci farebbero pieta!]^    Metastasio pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.^    Gerald Stanley Lee

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more things you do, the more you can do.^    Lucille Ball

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.^    Colley Cibber

It is better to know some of the  questions than all of the answers.^    James Thurber

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.^    Henry Ward Beecher

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes.  All his government is groping.^    Ben Jonson

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.^    Johann Kaspar Lavater

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.^    Daniel Readon

We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.^    Benjamin Franklin

I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each  other's dreams, we'll always be together.^    Hobbes

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.^    John Dryden

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^    Thomas Jefferson

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.^    Ani Difranco

The important thing in life is not  the triumph but the struggle.^    Pierre de Coubertin

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.^    Jack Kinder

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^    Oliver Goldsmith

A glass is good, and a lass is good,  And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;    The world is good and the people are good,      And we're all good fellows together.^    John OKeefe

You can't study the darkness  by flooding it with light.^    Edward Abbey

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.  - Every Man In His Humor.^    Ben Johnson

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^    Thomas Campbell Clark

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.^    Alexandre Dumas Fils

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.^    Charlie Chaplin

In every pang that rends the heart  The Man of Sorrows had a part.^    Michael Bruce

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;  My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.^    Robert Burns

If you can look back on your life with  contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.^    Jim Fiebig

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.^    Jonathan Katz

Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.^    Daniel Deleanu

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.^    Briana Scurry

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.^    Francis Bacon

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food  It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--    Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.      Oh!  the roast beef of England.        And Old England's roast beef.^    Henry Fielding

They say that man is mighty,  He governs land and sea,    He wields a mighty scepter      O'er lesser powers that be;        But a mightier power and stronger          Man from his throne has hurled,            For the hand that rocks the cradle              Is the hand that rules the world.^    William Ross Wallace

Cut  Men's throats with whisperings.^    Ben Jonson

No man ever yet became great by imitation.^    Dr Samuel Johnson

Why doth one man's yawning make another yawn?^    Robert Burton

Linux is not user-friendly. It _is_ user-friendly.  It is not ignorant-friendly and idiot-friendly.^    Source Unknown

To what base ends, and by what abject ways,  Are mortals urg'd through sacred lust of praise!^    Alexander Pope

Space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind union of the two will preserve an independent reality^    Albert Einstein

Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.^    Gerhard Kocher

Cunning . . . is but the low mimic of wisdom.^    Henry St. John Bolingbroke

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.^    Bible

Tenderness is the repose of Passion^    Joseph Joubert

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.^    Confucius

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'^    George Bernard Shaw

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.^    Ouida

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.^    Josh Billings

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.^    St Theresa of Jesus

The formula for achieving a successful  relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were  trivialities but never treat a  triviality as if it were a disaster.^    Quentin Crisp

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.^    George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross

Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs.^    Colette Dowling

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.^    Henry David Thoreau

Games are a compromise between  intimacy and keeping intimacy away.^    Eric Berne

why wait for the weekend to have fun?^    Loesje

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.^    Corazon Aquino

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can^    William Feather

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.^    Brendan Francis

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.^    Charles Simic

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.^    Jawaharlal Nehru

We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of the dream. Wandering by lone sea breakers, and sitting by desolate streams. World losers and world forsakers, for whom the pale moon gleams. Yet we are movers and the shakers of the world forever it seems.^    Arthur OShaunessey

Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves.  -Unknown.^    Unknown

Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it.^    Mark Twain

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.^    Albert Einstein

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to  be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.^    Thomas A. Edison

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

The causes of events are ever more interresting than the events themselves.^    Cicero

On wings of wind came flying all abroad.^    Alexander Pope

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.^    Rabindranath Tagore

Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme,  Have not we sworn it, many a time,    That we no more our verse would scrawl,      For Shakespeare he had said it all!^    Richard Watson Gilder

You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at. The wall of a museum - a canvas - a piece of film - or a guy sitting in front of a typewriter. Then, you start out to do something - that vague thing called creation. The beginning strikes awe within you.^    Edward Steichen

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.^    Charles de Lint

Oh, where did hunter win  So delicate a skin    For her feet?      You lucky little kid,        You perished, so you did,          For my sweet.^    Frederick Locker-Lampson

Our government teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.^    Louis D. Brandeis

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.^    W. H. Auden

Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.^    Alexander Crummell

I am a big believer that you have to nourish any relationship. I am still very much a part of my friends' lives and they are very much a part of my life. A First Lady who does not have this source of strength and comfort can lose perspective and become isolated.^    Nancy Reagan

There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn^    Chinese Proverbs

By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever^    Lao Tzu

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.^    Eleanor Roosevelt

If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work^    Richard Livingstone

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.^    Edmund Hillary

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.^    Mark Twain

Hark!  the bonny Christ-Church bells,  One, two, three, four, five, six;    They sound so woundy great,      So wound'rous sweet,        And they troul so merrily.^    Dean Henry Aldridge Aldrich

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.^    Edmund Burke

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.^    Benjamin Franklin

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.^    Hosea Ballou

Attitudes are more important than facts.^    Karl A. Menninger

O my prophetic soul!  My uncle?^    William Shakespeare

Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.^    Swami Omkarananda

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you.^    David Gibbs

Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.^    Led Zeppelin

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.^    George Eliot pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.^    Rabindranath Tagore

I've personally used e2fsprogs 1.05 to make  a 54bib partition. That's a lot of bibs.  I thought a double chin was a lot, but to need 54 bibs, it would have to be a FAT partition.^    Kevin M Bealer

Not a flower  But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,    Of his unrivall'd pencil.^    William Cowper

As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind  To look out through, and his Frailty find.^    Samuel Daniel

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.^    Swami Sivananda

Lo!  where the rosy bosom'd Hours  Fair Venus' train appear,    Disclose the long-expecting flowers,      And wake the purple year.^    John Gray

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.  -Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 1.^    William Shakespeare

It's the most unglamourous glamour  business in the world.^    Minnie Pearl

Law is a bottomless pit.^    John Arbuthnot

The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.  [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]^    Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.^    William Arthur Ward

Were't not affection chains thy tender days  To the sweet glances of thy honored love,    I rather would entreat thy company      To see the wonders of the world abroad        Than, living dully sluggardized at home,          Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.^    William Shakespeare

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor."--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.^    Wendell Phillips

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.^    Charles Mackay

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.^    John LeCarre

What need a man forestall his date of grief,  And run to meet what he would most avoid?^    John Milton

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.^    Arthur Miller

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.^    Irving Wallace

When you invite the whole world to your party, inevitably someone pees in the beer.^    Xeni Jardin

Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.^    Jim Rohn

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration!^    William Blake

O God, keep me innocent; make others great!  [Fr., O mon Dieu, conserve-moi innocente, donne la grandeur aux autres.]^    Caroline Matilda

Everybody loves success, but  they hate successful people.^    John McEnroe

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence^    Samuel Johnson

The American spirit wears no political label. In service to others and yes, in sacrifice for our country, there are no Republicans; there are no Democrats; there are only Americans.^    Senator John Kerry

Once I guessed right,  And I got credit by't;    Thrice I guessed wrong,      And I kept my credit on.^    Robert Louis Stevenson

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the  midst, than in the beginning of danger.^    Philip Sidney

It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.^    Eleanor Roosevelt

I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.^    Oscar Wilde

Wives are people who feel  they don't dance enough.^    Groucho Marx

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.^    John Kenneth Galbraith

The essence of wealth is the capacity to control the forces of nature, and the extent of wealth depends upon the level of technology and the ability to create new knowledge.^    Julian Simon

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.  You know how it is with an April day    When the sun is out and the wind is still,      You're one month on in the middle of May.        But if you so much as dare to speak,          A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,            A wind comes off a frozen peak,              And you're two months back in the middle of March.^    Robert Lee Frost

We all know there is blood in meat(USDA hearings in Senate Ag committee).^    Charles Grassley

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