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"So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. "

Twain, Mark on uncategorised    Share


"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. "

Lowell, James Russell on uncategorised    Share

"But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, is the supreme good of life. I think it a duty, and it is my earnest wish, to take no further part in public affairs. The abuse of confidence by publishing my letters has cost me more than all other pains. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day. "

Lippmann, Walter on uncategorised    Share

"I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news. "

Sophocles on uncategorised    Share

"For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised    Share

"The one great poem of New England is her Sunday. "

Beecher, Henry Ward on uncategorised    Share

"There is good news tonight. "

Heatter, Gabriel on uncategorised    Share

"Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised    Share

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last. "

Ruskin, John on uncategorised    Share

"Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on uncategorised    Share

"We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. "

Eliot, George on uncategorised    Share

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. I am mighty, world-destroying Time"

Bhagavad Gita on uncategorised    Share

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised    Share

"So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. "

Kingsley, Charles on uncategorised    Share

"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty, chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves. "

Young, Edward on uncategorised    Share

"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. "

Schweitzer, Albert on uncategorised    Share

"Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!"

Healey, Thomas F. on uncategorised    Share

"Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably "

Keats, John on uncategorised    Share

"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. "

Napoleon III on uncategorised    Share

"For what end shall we be connected with men, of whom this is the character and conduct? Is it, that we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution; soberly dishonoured; speciously polluted; the outcasts of delicacy and virtue, and the lothing of God and man?"

Dwight, Timothy on uncategorised    Share

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. "

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised    Share

"ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather start a family thanfinish one blood will tell but oftenit tells too much"

Marquis, Don on uncategorised    Share

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. "

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on uncategorised    Share

"In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. "

Keynes, John Maynard on uncategorised    Share

"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. "

Adams, John on uncategorised    Share

"Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing. "

Shakespeare, William on uncategorised    Share

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised    Share

"Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. "

Paine, Thomas on uncategorised    Share

"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?"

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised    Share

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