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If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the… — Henry Van Dyke
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement. — Hannah Whitall Smith
I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And… — Abraham Lincoln
The general that hearkens to my counsel and acts upon it, will conquer: let such a one be retained in command! The general that hearkens… — Sun Tzu
We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We… — Douglas MacArthur
I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country. The… — Douglas MacArthur
Soldiers are members of a profession of arms which has existed virtually unchanged for thousands of years- far longer than most other human institutions have… — William A. Connelly
A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have… — Woodrow Wilson
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous… — Edmund Burke
It is painful enough to discover with what unconcern they speak of war and threaten it. I have seen enough of it to make me… — Stonewall Jackson
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing… — Mark Twain
The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition. — Edmund Burke
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your… — Rudyard Kipling
The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is… — Isadora Duncan
How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of tulips; The moon,… — Amy Lowell
I sit in my garden, gazing upon a beauty that cannot gaze upon itself. And I find sufficient purpose for my day. — Robert Breault
Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been… — Andrew Weil
No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.… — Charles Lamb
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As for freedom, it will soon cease to exist in any shape or form. Living will depend upon absolute obedience to a strict set of… — Jean Baudrillard
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this… — Immanuel Kant
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our… — Martin Luther

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