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To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. Thomas Paine
Freedom People Poverty Say Rather Had Make Fit Than Any Taxes Choice Loaded
My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. Thomas Paine
Good Religion World Country
To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture. Thomas Paine
Man Atheist Humanity Holding Medicine Philosophy Consists Argue Like Dead Contempt Authority Convert Scripture Use Reason Who Whose
At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year. Thomas Tusser
Christmas Good Year Once Once A Year Cheer Make Good Cheer Play
I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. W. H. Auden
Love You Valentines Day Meet River Over Sing Till Dear Salmon Jumps Mountain Africa Love You China Street
Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? William Blake
Sad Grief Too Kind Relief See Seek Sorrow Another Woe
Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake
Love Hate Energy Progression Attraction Without Existence Love And Hate Human Human Existence Repulsion Reason Necessary
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white. William Blake
Day Bible Black White Thou Both Day And Night Read Where Night
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. William Shakespeare
Adversity Ugly Venomous Sweet Wears Head Like His Precious Which Toad Uses Jewel
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. William Shakespeare
Goodness Virtue Fearful Never Bold
I am not bound to please thee with my answer. William Shakespeare
I Am Please Bound Answer Am Thee
If you love someone who is ruining his or her life because of faulty thinking, and you don't do anything about it because you are afraid of what others might think, it would seem that rather than being loving, you are in fact being heartless. William Wilberforce
Life Love You If You Love Someone Think Thinking Others Ruining Faulty Would About Seem Someone Rather Fact Because His Than Heartless Afraid Being In Fact Anything Loving Might Who Her
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. Alan Watts
Future Made Living Valid Those Capacity Plans Who Now
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder. Aldous Huxley
Wine Beauty Worse Both Than Beholder Holder
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. Alfred Hitchcock
Man Asthmatic Saw Carrying Indignant Purity Inventor Inspired Never He Arm Pig Understand Sound His Man-Made Achieved Unfortunately
By blood a king, in heart a clown. Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heart King Clown Blood
It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars. Arthur C. Clarke
Patriotism Perspective Men Long Seen Single Nationalism Stars Extreme Earth Easy See More Small True Globe How Survive Against Forms
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become. Brooke Foss Westcott
Great Eyes Strong Heroes Men Become Cowards Weak Crisis Some Imperceptibly Simply Make Occasions Unveil Wake Them Shows Grow Last Sleep
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. Charles Darwin
Beginning Must All Things Remain Mystery Content Us Agnostic Things
I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time. Charles Dickens
Time Myself Determination Diligence Punctuality Could Habits Never Concentrate Without Subject Done Order
Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done. Charles Wesley
God Faith Alone Cries Laughs Promise Sees Shall Looks Impossibilities Done Mighty
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. D. H. Lawrence
Life Knowledge Life Is A Edge Taken Leap Then Travelling
The skull is nature's sculpture. David Bailey
Nature Sculpture Skull
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it. David Bowie
Work Selfish Try Stronger Mistakes Big Second-Guess Please About Audience Always Very Get
There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up. David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
Time People Speak Sometimes Up Listen Shut Shut Up Need
A friend at school was always being laughed at because his father emptied dustbins for a living. But those who laughed worshipped famous footballers. This is an example of our topsy-turvy view of 'success.' Who would we miss most if they did not work for a month, the footballer or the garbage collector? David Icke
Success Work School Father Example Garbage Living Our Month Worshipped Those Laughed Would Collector Miss Footballer Footballers Most Because Always His Friend Did Being Famous View Who
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