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It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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Recipe for the upbringing of a poet: 'As much neurosis as the child can bear. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We have accounts of the deification of men in pagan mythology. But I do not remember any account of a god becoming… — A. C. Dixon Copy Share Image
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The majority of people are not awake; it is only here and there that we find one even partially awake. Practically all… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
A strange thing surely that my Heart, when love had come unsought Upon the Norman upland or in that poplar shade, Should… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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Our democratic faith is more than the creed of our country, it is the inborn hope of our humanity, an ideal we… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you… — Marie de France Copy Share Image
God has given me the grace to see some of the seeds that I have sown bear good fruit, and I am… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
“The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example,… — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
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They who have steeped their souls in prayer Can every anguish calmly bear. — Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton Copy Share Image
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You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank, And… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
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Apple trees bear apples, wheat stalks produce wheat, and forgiven people forgive people. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
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Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges,… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
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