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Rev. Brown: If lovin' the lord is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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Marty: This pretentious ponderous collection of religious rock psalms is enough to prompt the question, `What day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and couldn't he have rested on that day too?
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Jules: The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.
Ezekiel 25:17
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Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbors.
-Bible
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Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
-Bible
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What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
-Bible
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He that keepeth the law of the Lord getteth the understanding thereof: and the perfection of the fear of the Lord is wisdom.
-Bible
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Ye been oure lord, dooth with youre owene thyngRight as yow list.
-Chaucer
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Listen, Christ,You did alright in your day, I reckonBut that days gone now. They ghosted you up a swell story, too,Called it BibleBut its dead now. The popes and the preachersveMade too much money from it. Theyve sold you too manyKings, generals, robbers, and killersEven to the Czar and the Cossacks,Even to Rockefellers church,Even to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. You aint no good no more. Theyve pawned youTill youve done wore out. Goodbye,Christ Jesus Lord God Jehova,Beat it on away from here now. Make way for a new guy with no religion at allA real guy namedMarx Communist Lenin Peasant Stalin Worker MEI said, ME!Go Ahead on now,Youre getting in the way of things, Lord. And please take Saint Ghandi sic with you when you go,And Saint Pope Pius,And Saint Aimee McPherson,And big black Saint BectonOf the Consecrated Dime. And step on the gas, Christ!Move!Dont be so slow about movin!The world is mine from now onAnd nobodys gonna sell METo a king, or a general,Or a millionaire.
-Langston Hughes
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We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORDS side.
-Abraham Lincoln
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The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said:He is a very common-looking man. The President replied:The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln
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And when he fell in whirlwind, he went down
As when a lordly cedar, green with boughs,
Goes down with a great shout upon the hills,
And leaves a lonesome place against the sky.
-Edwin Markham
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Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago.
-Will Rogers
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When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victorymust follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God the Father fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battlebe Thou near them! With themin spiritwe also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with anavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with their little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied itfor our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
-Mark Twain
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Action(s)
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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
-Sir John Eliot
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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.
-Source Unknown
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Adversity
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We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don't faint when you are rebuked, and don't despise the chastening of the Lord. In your patience possess your souls.
-Oswald Chambers
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Advice
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Until thy feet have trod the Road
Advise not wayside folk,
Nor till thy back has borne the Load
Break in upon the broke.
Chase not with undesired largesse
Of sympathy the heart
Which, knowing her own bitterness,
Presumes to dwell apart.
Employ not that glad hand to raise
The God-forgotten head
To Heaven and all the neighbours' gaze --
Cover thy mouth instead.
The quivering chin, the bitten lip,
The cold and sweating brow,
Later may yearn for fellowship --
Not now, you ass, not now!
Time, not thy ne'er so timely speech,
Life, not thy views thereon,
Shall furnish or deny to each
His consolation.
Or, if impelled to interfere,
Exhort, uplift, advise,
Lend not a base, betraying ear
To all the victim's cries.
Only the Lord can understand,
When those first pangs begin,
How much is reflex action and
How much is really sin.
E'en from good words thyself refrain,
And tremblingly admit
There is no anodyne for pain
Except the shock of it.
So, when thine own dark hour shall fall,
Unchallenged canst thou say:
I never worried you at all,
For God's sake go away!
-Rudyard Kipling, The Comforters
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LORD GORING:
I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice.
MRS. CHEVELEY:
Oh! pray don't. One should never give a woman anything that she can't wear in the evening.
-Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband: Act 3
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LORD GORING:
My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
-Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, Act 1
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Age
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
-William Shakespeare
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MRS. ALLONBY: She told me yesterday, and in quite a loud voice too, that she was only eighteen. It was most annoying.
LORD ILLINGWORTH: One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
-Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
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Appearance
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The Lord prefers common looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Appreciation
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Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.
-William Shakespeare
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Aristocracy
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Lords are lordliest in their wine.
-John Milton
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Art
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Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
-Samuel Johnson
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Astrology
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Look you, Doubloon, your zodiac here is the life of man in one round chapter. To begin: there's Aries, or the Ram -- lecherous dog, he begets us; then, Taurus, or the Bull -- he bumps us the first thing; then Gemini, or the Twins -- that is, Virtue and Vice; we try to reach Virtue, when lo! comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path -- he gives a few fierce bites and surly dabs with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the virgin! that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when pop comes Libra, or the Scales -- happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord! how we suddenly jump, as Scorpio, or the Scorpion, stings us in rear; we are curing the wound, when come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself. As we pluck out the shafts, stand aside! here's the battering-ram, Capricornus, or the Goat; full tilt, he comes rushing, and headlong we are tossed; when Aquarius, or the Waterbearer, pours out his whole deluge and drowns us; and, to wind up, with Pisces, or the Fishes, we sleep.
-Herman Melville
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Body, the
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Time was when I despised the body:
But then I saw the God within.
The Body I relaised is the Lord's temple;
And so I began preserving it with care infinite.
-Thirumoolar
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Bravery
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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Ephesians 6:10
-Bible
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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9
-Bible
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Bread
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In the Lords prayer, the first petition is for daily bread; no one can worship God, or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
-Woodrow Wilson
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Capitalism
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Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.
-Georges Bernanos
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A gardener who cultivates his own garden with his own hands, unites in his own person the three different characters, of landlord, farmer, and labourer. His produce, therefore, should pay him the rent of the first, the profit of the second, and the wages of the third.
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
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Career, Vocation
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Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
-Mother Theresa
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Character
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The lord will not hold back the promises, even if the person who makes them is not worthy.
-Source Unknown
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Choice
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.
-James Allen
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There is an election going on all the time... the Lord votes for you and Satan votes against you, and you must cast the deciding vote.
-Source Unknown
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Christianity
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
-John Bunyan
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The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.
-Clement of Alexandria
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A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.
-Dwight L. Moody
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There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
-Dwight L. Moody
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Class
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No matter her past, when a chambermaid marries a lord she becomes a lady.
-Proverb
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Common Sense
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The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.
-Samuel Butler
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Communication
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Communication is a two-way street. And while we revel in the reality that we can always get through to heaven, our concern should be whether our Lord can always get through to us.
-Joseph Stowell
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Community
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The community of living is the carriage of the Lord.
-Proverb
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Congress
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I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.
-Henry Wilson
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Creation
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All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
-Cecil Frances Alexander, Hymn, All Things Bright and Beautiful
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If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
-Alfonso X
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Criticism
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You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
-Ernest Hemingway
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If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
-H. A. Ironside
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Death
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And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
-Bible, Matthew 8:21-22
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Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. Psalms 39:4
-Bible
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Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. Psalms 116:15
-Bible
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We are but tenants and shortly the great landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
-Joseph Jefferson
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Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour;
Brightness falls from the air;
Queens have died young and fair;
Dust hath closed Helen's eye.
I am sick, I must die;
Lord have mercy on us.
-Thomas Nash, Song in Time of Pestilence
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Take care of your of your life and the Lord will take of your death.
-George Whitefield
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Democracy
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
-Langston Hughes
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I swear to the Lord
I still can't see
Why Democracy means
Everybody but me.
-Langston Hughes, The Black Man Speaks
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Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.
-P. J. O'Rourke
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Desires
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
-Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Diets and Dieting
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Obesity is a condition which proves that the Lord does not help those who help themselves and help themselves and help themselves.
-Source Unknown
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Discipline
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No one is free who does not lord over himself.
-Claudius
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Doubt
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Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
-E. M. Forster
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Drinking
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Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord and it makes you miss him.
-Anon., Irish Proberb
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Education
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Education, we see, is not merely gaining knowledge or skills helpful toward productive work, though certainly that is a part of it. Rather it is a replenishment and an expansion of the natural thirst of the mind and soul. Learning is a gradual process of growth, each step building upon the other. It is a process whereby the learner organizes and integrates not only facts but attitudes and values. The Lord has told us that we must open our minds and our hearts to learn. There is a Chinese proverb: Wisdom is as the moon rises, perceptible not in progress but in result. As our knowledge is converted to wisdom, the door to opportunity is unlocked.
-Barbara W. Winder
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Effort
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Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.
-David O. Mckay
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Empire
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Keep our Empire undismembered guide our Forces by Thy Hand, gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland; protect them Lord in all their fights, and even more, protect the whites.
-John Betjeman
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Enemy, Enemies
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In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Ethics
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness--a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.
-Thomas Babington Macaulay, On Moore's Life of Lord Byron, 1831
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Evil
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He was defeated 2000 years ago though there's many that feel that he is The Lord and that they will succeed.
-James Dye
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Evolution
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The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
-Benjamin Disraeli
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Exercise
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I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.
-Neil Armstrong, on jogging, in an interview with Walter Cronkite
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Eyes
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The eyes of the lord are in every place seeing the evil and the good.
-Bible
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Facts
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
-Dorothy L. Sayers
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Faith
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I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine. God is using me from His great personal standpoint, and all He asks of me is that I trust Him, and never say -- Lord, this gives me such heart-ache.... He simply asks me to have implicit faith in Himself and in His goodness.
-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest
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You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.
-Martin Luther
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Family
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Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender- these form the wealth of home.
-Sarah Josepha Hale
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
-J. M. Synge
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Fanaticism
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
-Finley Peter Dunne
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Farming
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I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
-George Sand
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Fate & Destiny
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Who then is the man who fears the Lord? He will instruct him in the way chosen for him. Psalm 25:12
-Bible
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Father
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Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
-Bible
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Fear
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Only he who can say, The Lord is my strength, can say, Of whom shall I be afraid?
-Alexander Maclaren
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Firefighting
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YER OF THE VIGILE DEL FUOCO
Lord who light the skyes and fill up the abysses,
burn in our breast the flame of sacrifice.
Strenghten the spirit of service that burn in us,
make safe our eye, steady our foot,
to make effective the rescue that in your name we bringto brothers in danger.
When the siren shrieks in the streets of the town,
listen the throb of our earths devoted to renounce.
When in competition with eagles we climb to You,
support us Your sored hand.
When the fire irresistible flares up,
burns the evil nestled in the houses of men,
not the life and affections of Your sons.
Lord, we are the bearer of Your Cross,
and risk is our daily bread.
A day without risk is not lived,
because for we believers death is life,
is light: in the dread of collapses, in the fury of waters,
in the hell of fires.
Our life is the fire, our faith is God.For Saint Barbara martyr.AMEN
-Anon., The prayer of italian firefighters
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Fools, Foolishness
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In short, no association or alliance can be happy or stable without me. People can't long tolerate a ruler, nor can a master his servant, a maid her mistress, a teacher his pupil, a friend his friend nor a wife her husband, a landlord his tenant, a soldier his comrade nor a party-goer his companion, unless they sometimes have illusions about each other, make use of flattery, and have the sense to turn a blind eye and sweeten life for themselves with the honey of folly.
-Desiderius Erasmus
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Lord, what fools these mortals be.
-William Shakespeare
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Forgiveness
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Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
-George W. Bush, in memorium to the tragedy of Sept. 11, September 14, 2002
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Freedom
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Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.
-Horace
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Friends
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I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Futility
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Glory
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God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill,
He treasures up His bright designs,
And works His sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan His work in vain:
God is His own interpreter,
And he will make it plain.
-William Cowper, Light Shining out of Darkness
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God
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And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. Deuteronomy 10:12
-Bible
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But from there you will seek the Lord you God and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. Deuteronomy 4:29
-Bible
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It is not a difficult matter to learn what it means to delight ourselves in the Lord. It is to live so as to please Him, to honor everything we find in His Word, to do everything the way He would like to have it done, and for Him.
-S. Maxwell Coder
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You need to find The Lord. He's around here somewhere.
-James Dye
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The spirit of Eucharistic love will make you refer everything to the Holy Eucharist, for the Eucharist is the summary of all marvels. It is the permanent mystery in which we find all others. If you have this Eucharistic spirit, if your thoughts are tuned continually toward the Eucharist, the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament will never leave you. God is immense, the universe is filled with God's presence, but the Eucharistic soul prefers to search and find God where he is sacramentally. Just as the eagles assemble where the body is, so also Eucharistic souls are attracted instinctively, easily, and habitually to the Holy Eucharist. Therein is their happiness, their peace; there they find a supernatural knowledge of all things. That is why after holy Communion we often understand some things which before were incomprehensible to us. That is why some saints who were very ignorant spoke admirably of God.
Put yourselves, then, dear sisters, in the holy Eucharist, and you will be in a center of light.
-Peter Julian Eymard, to the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
-Robert Frost
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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
-John Newton
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If the sea were ink for the words of my Lord, the sea would be spent before the Words of my lord are spent.
-Qur'an
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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I like to interpose in all of my appointments, if the Lord wills.
-A. B. Simpson
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The Lord builds up Jerusalem,
And gathers nations to his Name:
His mercy melts the stubborn soul,
And makes the broken spirit whole.
He form'd the stars, those heavenly flames,
He counts their numbers, calls their names:
His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound,
A deep where all our thoughts are drown'd.
Great is our Lord, and great his might;
And all his glories infinite:
He crowns the meek, rewards the just,
And treads the wicked to the dust.
Sing to the Lord, exalt him high,
Who spreads his cloud all round the sky,
There he prepares the fruitful rain,
Nor lets the drops descend in vain.
He makes the grass the hills adorn,
And clothes the smiling fields with corn,
The beasts with food his hands supply,
And the young ravens when they cry.
What is the creature's skill or force,
The sprightly man, the warlike horse,
The nimble wit, the active limb?
All are too mean delights for him.
But saints are lovely in his sight;
He views his children with delight:
He sees their hope, he knows their fear,
And looks and loves his image there.
-Isaac Watts, Psalm 147
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Goodness
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O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.
-Source Unknown
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Government
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Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
-Miguel de Cervantes
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The cadres of our Party and state are ordinary workers and not overlords sitting on the backs of the people.
-Mao Tse Tung
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Greatness & Great Things
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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
-Pierre De Beaumarchais
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Heart
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If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in Our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour would be very well employed.
-St. Francis De Sales
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I have joined my heart to thee: all that exists are thou. O Lord, beloved of my heart, thou art the home of all; where indeed is the heart in which thou dost not dwell?
-Jafar
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Heaven
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As for evildoers, for them awaits a painful chastisement; but for those who believe, and do deeds of righteousness, they shall be admitted to gardens underneath which rivers flow, therein dwelling forever, by the leave of their Lord, their greeting therein: Peace!
-Qur'an
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Hell
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O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss.
-Ramayana
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Help
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If one of us could ascend to the heavenly realm and for a few hours accompany the divine on His daily rounds, he would see below millions of his fellow humans busily hurling themselves into the passions, sports, and action of those around him. But if our observer had the power and omniscience of the Lord, he would also feel and sense, pulsing through and vibrating from every one of us here below, a desperate and unending plea, Notice me! I want to be known admired, and loved by the whole world! And it is this, this glorious weakness, this dependence of ours on each other, that makes some of us usually heroes and fools at the same time.
-Rev. Michael Burry
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Heroes/Heroism
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The paper tiger hero, James Bond, offering the whites a triumphant image of themselves, is saying what many whites want desperately to hear reaffirmed: I am still the White Man, lord of the land, licensed to kill, and the world is still an empire at my feet.
-Eldridge Cleaver
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Horses, Horse Racing
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You were a lord if you had a horse...
Far back, far back in our dark soul the horse prances. . . . The horse, the horse! The symbol of surging potency and power of movement, of action, in man.
-D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, 1931
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Humility
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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
-Isak Dinesen
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I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
-Kahlil Gibran
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Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
-William Shakespeare
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Hypocrisy
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How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! -- much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends -- those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that!
-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 1
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Idealism
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Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.
-Willa Cather
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Immortality
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The self-existent Lord pierced the senses to turn outward. Thus we look to the world outside and see not the Self within us. A sage withdrew his senses from the world of change and, seeking immortality, looked within and beheld the deathless self.
-Katha Upanishad
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Impermanence
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It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to it all.
-Heinrich Heine, City of Lucca
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Independence
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I am lord of myself, accountable to none.
-Benjamin Franklin
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It's easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing -- that's the Lord's test.
-Mahalia Jackson
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Individuality
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What would you have me do?
Search out some powerful patronage, and be
Like crawling ivy clinging to a tree?
No thank you.
Dedicate, like all the others,
Verses to plutocrats, while caution smothers
Whatever might offend my lord and master?
No thank you.
Kneel until my knee-caps fester,
Bend my back until I crack my spine,
And scratch another’s back if he’ll scratch mine?
No thank you.
Dining out to curry favour,
Meeting the influential till I slaver,
Suiting my style to what the critics want
With slavish copy of the latest can’t?
No thanks!
Ready to jump through any hoop
To be the great man of a little group?
Be blown off course, with madrigals for sails,
By the old women sighing through their veils?
Labouring to write a line of such good breeding
Its only fault is that it’s not worth reading?
To ingratiate myself, abject with fear,
And fawn and flatter to avoid a sneer?
No thanks, no thanks, no thanks!
But just to sing,
Dream, laugh, and take my tilt of wing,
To cock a snook whenever I shall choose,
To fight for yes and no, come win or lose,
To travel without thought of fame or fortune
Wherever I care to go to under the moon!
Never to write a line that hasn’t come
Directly from my heart: and so, with some
Modesty, to tell myself: My boy,
Be satisfied with a flower, a fruit, the joy
Of a single leaf, so long as it was grown
In your own garden. Then, if success is won
By any chance, you have nothing to render to
A hollow Caesar: the merit belongs to you.
In short, I won’t be a parasite; I’ll be
My own intention, stand alone and free,
And suit my voice to what my own eyes see!
-Edmond Rostand
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Integrity
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The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability.
-Source Unknown
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Journalism
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Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Journeys
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Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.
-George Herbert
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Joy, Excitement
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Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice! Philippians 4:4
-Bible
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Justice
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When a man is just and firm in his purpose,
The citizens burning to approve a wrong
Or the frowning looks of a tyrant
Do not shake his fixed mind, nor the Southwind.
Wild lord of the uneasy Adriatic,
Nor the thunder in the mighty hand of Jove:
Should the heavens crack and tumble down,
As the ruins crushed him he would not fear.
-Horace, Odes 3.3, translated by Joseph P. Clancy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960)
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I'm trusting in the Lord and a good lawyer.
-Oliver North
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The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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Knowledge
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King Solomon
-Bible
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Land
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The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.
-David Lloyd George
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Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.
-Karl Marx
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Last Words
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Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.
-Roy Rogers
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Lord, let me live until I die.
-Will Rogers
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Leadership
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People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher --a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.
-Source Unknown
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Life
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Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.
-John Steinbeck
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Literary
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O, thou hast damnable iteration, and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me, Hal; God forgive thee for it! Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing; and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. I must give over this life, and I will give it over; by the Lord, an I do not, I am a villain: I'll be damn'd for never a king's son in Christendom.
Falstaff speaking to Prince Henry
-William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, act I, sc ii
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Love
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Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?
-Source Unknown
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Luck
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The lot is cast into the heap, but the whole disposing there of is of the Lord.
-Bible
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Mankind, Man
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Our generation is realistic for we have come to know man as he really is.
After all, man is that being who has invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who has entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or Shema Yisrael on his lips.
-Victor Frankl
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Manners
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At the time, my grandparents told my mom, Lordy, what is Shannen doing? Now I've calmed down. on her reputation for bad behavior
-Shannen Doherty
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Marriage
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Who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor with the Lord.
-Bible
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Maturity
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Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.
-William Shakespeare
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Medicine
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The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5
-Bible
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
-Josh Billings
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Meditation
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Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.
-Bhagavad Gita
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This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it is present with thy Lord, thy purposes, thy hopes.
When asked: Why have I never been able to meditate? I go to sleep.
-Edgar Cayce
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Memory
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Lord, keep my memory green.
-Charles Dickens
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Military, the
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To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
-George Orwell
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Mistakes
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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.
-William James Mayo
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Money
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I really don't like talking about money. All I can say is that the Good Lord must have wanted me to have it.
-Larry Bird
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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
-Martin Luther
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Music
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What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
-Ludwig van Beethoven
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Nature
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The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.
-George Mallory
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Observation
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The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
-Walter Bagehot
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Oppression
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They have given us into the hand of new unhappy lords. Lords without anger and honor, who dare not carry their swords. They fight by shuffling papers; they have bright dead alien eyes; They look at our labor and laughter as a tired man looks at flies.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Ordinary
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Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
-Abraham Lincoln
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Paradise, Utopia
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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did.
-Diane Arbus
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Parenting
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A Prayer For My SonBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory
-General Douglas MacArthur
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Parliament
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
-Walter Bagehot
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Passion
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O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue with which to praise the Lord. It utters a thousand pious follies, in a continuous endeavor to please Him who thus possesses it.
-Teresa of Avila
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Patience
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The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.
N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait.
-Bible, Lamentations 3:25
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There was no exaggeration in Marian's definition of Flintcomb-Ash farm as a starve-acre place. The single fat thing on the soil was Marian herself; and she was an importation. Of the three classes of village, the village cared for by its lord, the village cared for by itself, and the village uncared for either by itself or by its lord (in other words, the village of a resident squires's tenantry, the village of free or copy-holders, and the absentee-owner's village, farmed with the land) this place, Flintcomb-Ash, was the third.
But Tess set to work. Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity, was now no longer a minor feature in Mrs Angel Clare; and it sustained her.
-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891
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Patience permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord when we are tossed about by suffering as if by surf. When the undertow grasps us we will realize that we are somehow being carried forward even as we tumble. We are actually being -helped even as we cry for help.
-Neal A. Maxwell
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Patriotism
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The Noble Lord advocates Union, what doth such a union mean? When the Smaller unites with the greater, what happens? The greater absorbs and engulfs the lesser, it is ever thus and so will be! There are ten times as many English as Scots. Think you then, when the ten becomes eleven, the eleventh will partner the ten? Or, be swallowed up by the ten? Is this what my Lord of Stair wants? An end to Scotland? The most ancient nation in Christendom, a kingdom when England was but a medley of warring tribes! Scotland, from whence Christianity spread to the English. Scotland, a people with their own Kirk and laws, their freedoms, customs and pride. Is all that for which our forefathers fought for untold generations, to be merely thrown aside for a mess of trading privileges and navigation rights? I would rather that Scotland sank to the bottom of the ocean rather than we lost one least part of our cherished Independence and ages old identity!
-Andrew Fletcher, From the minutes of the Scottish parliament of 1703
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Peace
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When a person's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with them.
-Bible
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O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sorrow, joy.
Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
The exact origin of this beautiful prayer remains unknown, it does not appear in any known writings of St Francis. The first known appearance of this inspiring prayer was in 1912 when it was published in the French magazine La Clochette.http://wahiduddin.net/saint_francis_of_assisi.htm
-Saint Francis of Assisi, The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis (often referred to as The Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi)
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Persistence
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There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Solitude (last lines)
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Persuasion
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Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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Plants
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There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
-John Muir, A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, 1916
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Pleasure
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As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.
-Sri Sarada Devi
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Politics
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The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.
-Tony Benn
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I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.
-William Blake
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The house of Lords is a model on how to care for the elderly.
-Franklin Field
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Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.
-Ogden Nash
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Potential
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For years, people have looked at Beamon's record as unattainable. I don't accept that. I believe the Lord has given me a talent. I know the record is inside me and I will attain it.
-Carl Lewis
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Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
-William Shakespeare
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Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.
-Source Unknown
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An old colored brother is said to have finished his prayer with words like these: and now good Lord; I know that you ain't going to let nothing come to me that me and you together can't handle.
-Source Unknown
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The Lord doesn't always choose men for what they are, but for what they can become.
-Source Unknown
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Poverty
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He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.
-Bible
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Power
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The Lord giveth and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be the name of the Lord. Job 1:21
-Bible
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Praise
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Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
-Proverb
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Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord. Ecclesiasticus 15:9
-Bible
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Prayer
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O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.
-Sir Jacob Astley
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Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, but I will instruct you in the good and right way. I Samuel 12:23
-Bible
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If I regard wickedness in my heart the Lord will not hear. Psalms 66:18
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O brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper--and sleep too--than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgin slumbers.
-Andrew A. Bonar
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The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
-Duke of Wellington Arthur Wellesley
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As for meditation, I would like you to be a disciple of prayer, because without prayer there is no habitual union with God. You need a type of prayer which is suited to your temperament, your situation, your inner inclination, consequently, your heart. Speak simply and candidly to our Lord as with another self, as with your sister. Be a child who is full of love and surrendered to her good maker. Let it be an interior conversation with God more than a work of the mind. Then, a scattered, distracted meditation will come together, because it will express all the thoughts and needs of your heart.
-Peter Julian Eymard, counseling Miss Antonia B
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If this obstacle is from Thee, Lord, I accept it; but if it is from Satan, I refuse him and all his works in the name of Calvary.
-Isobel Kuhn
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They tell me, Lord, that when I seem
To be in speech with you.
Since but one voice is heard, it
-C.S. Lewis
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
-Emo Philips
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Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality...plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way...Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it. Believe that you have the blessing, and go forth to your work in full assurance of it. Go from your knees singing, because the promise is fulfilled: thus will your prayer be answered...the strength not length of your prayer...wins...God; and the strength of prayer lies in your faith in the promise which you pleaded before the Lord.
-C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon
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My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.
-Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
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Procrastination
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Elijah went before the people and said, How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him. But the people said nothing. 1 Kings 18:21
-Bible
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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
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A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and judgment?
-Jonathan Swift
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Prophecy
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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.
-William Blake
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Prostitution
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What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician -- these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
-Polly Adler
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Purpose
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One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek: That I may dwell in the house f the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. Psalms 27:4
-Bible
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Quality
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So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
-William S. Burroughs
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Reading
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Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling Peregrine Pickle under the toilette --throw Roderick Random into the closet --put The Innocent Adultery into The Whole Duty of Man; thrust Lord Aimworth under the sofa! cram Ovid behind the bolster; there --put The Man of Feeling into your pocket. Now for them.
-Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Reality
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There was once a man in China who liked pictures of dragons. His clothing and his furniture were therefore accordingly adorned with dragons. This deep affection for their kind was brought to the attention of the Dragon Lord, who one day sent a real dragon to stand outside the man's window. It is said that he probably died of fright.
-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, from Hagakure (Hidden in the Leaves), 1716
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Relationships
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If you don't want to deal with the devil, don't go in his shop. Keep on the Lord's side of the fence.
-Source Unknown
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Religion
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The Lord is my light, and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
-Bible, Psalm 27: 1
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Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who is regarded as descended from that tribe. That's what it says in the dictionary; but you and I know what a Jew is -- One Who Killed Our Lord. And although there should be a statute of limitations for that crime, it seems that those who neither have the actions nor the gait of Christians, pagan or not, will bust us out, unrelenting dues, for another deuce.
-Lenny Bruce
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I have had but one passion, and I have lived for it - the absorbingly arduous yet glorious work of proclaiming the grace and love of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
-John Henry Jowett
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Retirement
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Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.
-Lord Chesterfield
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Revenge
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Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
-Bible
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Right, Rightness
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The Lord doesn't want any person in His kingdom who hasn't known bad and chosen good.
-Source Unknown
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Royalty, Kings, Queens
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The supreme, the merciless, the destroyer of opposition, the exalted King, the shepherd, the protector of the quarters of the world, the King the word of whose mouth destroys mountains and seas, who by his lordly attack has forced mighty and merciless Kings from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same to acknowledge one supremacy.
-Ashurnasirpal
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Here lies our Sovereign Lord, the King whose word no man relies on: He never said a foolish thing nor ever did a wise one.
-Earl Rochester
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Sadness
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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
-Oscar Wilde
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Safety
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The horse is prepared against the day of battle, but safety is of the Lord.
-Bible
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Salvation
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Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord.
-Bible
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Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near.
-Bible
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Seasons
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The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
-William Shakespeare
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Security
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Yet one thing secures us what ever betide, the scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.
-Sir Isaac Newton
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Selfishness
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Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.
-Katha Upanishad
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Serenity
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For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.
-Bhagavad Gita
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Service
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
-James Barrie
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The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his Lord.
-Bible
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In the service of the Lord, it is not where but how you serve.
-J. (Joshua) Reuben Clark, Jr.
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Sin
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But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out. Numbers 32:23
-Bible
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A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain
-Robert A. Heinlein
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Singing
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Directions for Singing
1. Learn these tunes before you learn any others; afterwards learn as many as you please.
2. Sing them exactly as they are printed here, without altering or mending them at all; and if you have learned to sing them otherwise, unlearn it as soon as you can.
3. Sing all. See that you join with the congregation as frequently as you can. Let not a single degree of weakness or weariness hinder you. If it is a cross to you, take it up, and you will find it a blessing.
4. Sing lustily and with good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength. Be no more afraid of your voice now, nor more ashamed of its being heard, then when you sung the songs of Satan.
5. Sing modestly. Do not bawl, so as to be heard above or distinct from the rest of the congregation, that you may not destroy the harmony; but strive to unite your voices together, so as to make one clear melodious sound.
6. Sing in time. Whatever time is sung be sure to keep with it. Do not run before nor stay behind it; but attend close to the leading voices, and move therewith as exactly as you can; and take care not to sing to slow. This drawling way naturally steals on all who are lazy; and it is high time to drive it out from us, and sing all our tunes just as quick as we did at first.
7. Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he cometh in the clouds of heaven.
-John Wesley, From John Wesley
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Slavery
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Today the large organization is lord and master, and most of its employees have been desensitized much as were the medieval peasants who never knew they were serfs.
-Ralph Nader
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Sleep
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Some praise the Lord for Light,
The living spark;
I thank God for the Night
The healing dark.
-Robert William Service, Weary, first lines
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Snow
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And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,
Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Hebrew Melodies, `The Destruction of Sennacherib'
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Soul
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In childhood's pride I said to Thee:
O Thou, who mad'st me of Thy breath,
Speak, Master, and reveal to me
Thine inmost laws of life and death.
Give me to drink each joy and pain
Which Thine eternal hand can mete,
For my insatiate soul can drain
Earth's utmost bitter, utmost sweet.
Spare me no bliss, no pang of strife,
Withhold no gift or grief I crave,
The intricate lore of love and life
And mystic knowledge of the grave.
Lord, Thou didst answer stern and low:
Child, I will hearken to thy prayer,
And thy unconquered soul shall know
All passionate rapture and despair.
Thou shalt drink deep of joy and fame,
And love shall burn thee like a fire,
And pain shall cleanse thee like a flame,
To purge the dross from thy desire.
So shall thy chastened spirit yearn
To seek from its blind prayer release,
And spent and pardoned, sue to learn
The simple secret of My peace.
I, bending from my sevenfold height,
Will teach thee of My quickening grace,
Life is a prism of My light,
And Death the shadow of My face.
-Sarojini Naidu, The Soul's Prayer
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O Lord, if there is a Lord, save my soul, if I have a soul.
-Joseph Ernst Renan
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
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Spirituality
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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.
-Proverb
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Not by might, or power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.
-Bible
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Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.
-Rumi
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Success & Failure
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The Lord gave us two ends -- one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
-Ann Landers
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Formula for Success... and then some. The top people do what's expected of them, and then some. They are thoughtful and considerate of others, and then some. They meet their obligations and responsibilities fairly and squarely, and then some. They are good friends to their friends, and then some. They can be counted on in an emergency, and then some. And so it is when we do what is assigned to us in our lives and in the church, and then some; then the Lord pays in full, and then some.
-Source Unknown
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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
-John Wooden
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Suffering
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Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away blessed be the name of the Lord.
-Bible
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Taxation
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My Lord, I sorrow to learn that I am so timorous of heart and to learn that my Lord could be so forgetful of the elementary facts of nature, and also of mankind, that he believes when the lesser joins the greater, it can remain itself and maintain it
-Andrew Fletcher, From the minutes of the Scottish parliament of 1703
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Thanksgiving
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Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land;
And giv'st me, for my bushel sown,
Twice ten for one;
Thou mak'st my teeming hen to lay
Her egg each day;
Besides my healthful ewes to bear
Me twins each year;
The while the conduits of my kine
Run cream, for wine.
All these, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart...
-Robert Herrick, A Thanksgiving To God, For His House
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Thought
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Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.
-Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Ch. 18 Conclusion
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Time
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
-Martin Luther
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Torture
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privelege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death himself.
-Albert Schweitzer, On the Edge of the Primeval Forest, Ch. 5
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Trust
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart; and don't lean on your own understanding. In all things acknowledge him, and he shall direct your way. Proverbs 3:5, 6
-Bible
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Universe, The
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To display his eternal attributes in their inexhaustible variety, the Lord made the green fields of time and space.
-Jami
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Virtue
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If we had to seek virtue outside of ourselves, that would assuredly be difficult; but as it is within us, it suffices to avoid bad thoughts and to keep our souls turned toward the Lord.
-Philokalia
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War
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If the Lord should once more give us sunshine and I do not give you enough fighting, I will never ask you to come out again.
But had daylight lasted one hour longer, Stark reported later, we should have taken the whole body of them.
-General John Stark, said before The Battle of Bennington, August 16, 1777
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief... for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
-Mark Twain
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Wars--and what is war except crime on a mass scale?--destroy rather than produce. The vandal that destroys a window causes not only the owner to bear the costs of replacing it, but costs those whom he planned on using that money to buy from. The same goes for wars. The warlords--of war and peace--destroyed so much, not only what existed, but all those new things that could have existed, if only individuals were left in peace.
-Adam Young
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Wealth
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The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud and strident voices...
The Poor arrived in Fords,
Whose features they resembled;
They laughed to see so many Lords
And Ladies all assembled.
The People in Between
Looked underdone and harassed,
And our of place and mean,
And Horribly embarrassed.
-Hilaire Belloc, The Garden Party
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Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.
-Daniel Defoe
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So our Lord God commonly gave riches to those gross asses to whom he vouchsafed nothing else.
-Martin Luther
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Wisdom
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The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. Psalms 19:7
-Bible
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We are to get wisdom and understanding, yet we are not to lean on it apart from the Lord.
-John C. Maxwell
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World
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The earth is the Lord s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it. Psalms 24:1
-Bible
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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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Worry
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The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.
-Source Unknown
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Youth
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
-Oscar Wilde
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