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Post by Gator on Jan 24, 2021 15:17:54 GMT -5
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
W. Somerset Maugham
(1874-1965)
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Post by Gator on Jan 25, 2021 0:21:30 GMT -5
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
George Eliot
(1819-1880)
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Post by Gator on Apr 14, 2021 2:37:18 GMT -5
There are talkers enough among us; I'll be one of the doers.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Apr 19, 2021 1:46:15 GMT -5
It is the stillest words which bring the storm. Thoughts that come with doves' footsteps guide the world.
Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
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Post by Gator on Apr 23, 2021 19:33:11 GMT -5
Appeal, v.t.: In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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Post by Gator on Apr 26, 2021 16:49:08 GMT -5
Time has laid his healing hand upon the wound when we can look back upon the pain we once fainted under and no bitterness or despair rises in our hearts.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Apr 26, 2021 23:48:46 GMT -5
Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(1804-1864)
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Post by Gator on Apr 27, 2021 23:05:41 GMT -5
It is not the office of a man to receive gifts ... We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882)
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Post by Gator on Apr 29, 2021 3:59:30 GMT -5
Let us have done with vain regrets and longings for the days that never will be ours again. Our work lies in front, not behind us; and "Forward!" is our motto.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Apr 30, 2021 1:49:43 GMT -5
Ah! how delicious it is to turn over and go to sleep again: "just for five minutes." Is there any human being, I wonder, besides the hero of a Sunday-school "tale for boys," who ever gets up willingly?
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on May 1, 2021 0:13:01 GMT -5
That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been.
Charles Dickens
(1812-1870)
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Post by Gator on Jun 5, 2021 8:35:56 GMT -5
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Oscar Wilde
(1854-1900)
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Post by Gator on Aug 9, 2021 20:29:03 GMT -5
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Aug 11, 2021 16:52:30 GMT -5
Everything looms pleasant through the softening haze of time. Even the sadness that is past seems sweet.
Jerome K. Jerome
(1859-1927)
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Post by Gator on Oct 7, 2021 21:01:56 GMT -5
Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it—this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842-1914)
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