The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
With us the inner nature accords with the outer expectation. The body follows the mind, and the mind seeks the soul, which… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he… — Joyce Cary Copy Share Image
Happy the person who has learned the cause of things and has put under his or her feet all fear, inexorable fate,… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which,… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
The territorialism and desire to possess things comes directly from the ego, which strives to own and control things. Your spirit already… — Karen Kingston Copy Share Image
Still from the sire the son shall hear Of the stern strife, and carnage drear, Of Flodden's fatal field, When shiver'd was… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The sage never strives for greatness, and can therefore accomplish greatness. — Laozi Copy Share Image
The unbosoming oneself to another is a kind of release to the soul, which strives to lighten its burden and find ease… — Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
The example of America must be the example not merely of peace because it will not fight, but of peace because peace… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
No one who strives with full faith and heart for the blessings of eternal life will be denied. And how great will… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
A little more kindness, A little less speed, A little more giving, A little less greed, A little more smile, A little… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When I reflect that the task which the artist implicitly sets himself is to overthrow existing values, to make of the chaos… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not… — Siddharth Katragadda Copy Share Image
Home schoolers do not wish to force other parents to home school. Gun owners do not insist that others buy guns, or… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Where the environment is too soft and luxurious and no strife is required for survival, not only are weak strains and individuals… — Madison Grant Copy Share Image
The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
The laws would not prevent each man from living according to his inclination, unless individuals harmed each other; for envy creates the… — Democritus Copy Share Image
