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What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.

Henrik Ibsen

He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

The valid research for the future is on the inner side, on the spiritual side.

Jerome Pilgrims

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air. thanks to Michele Rousseau -T. Starr King.

T. Starr King

Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. -Chief Seattle.

Chief Seattle

What will be required to increase the quality of life and health is a coming together of technology and values, based on a scientific guiding principle that people can agree on. Securing a healthy global future requires this guiding principle to preserve freedom of spirit yet be as provable as the laws of physics. A guiding principle that addresses the meaning of life and is compelling enough to generate social cohesion and behaviors that serve the greater whole. After thirty years of investigation and research, it has become clear to me that the answer lies within the human heart. -Doc Childre.

Doc Childre

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.

Jonathan Swift

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick

Dear Erin, how sweetly thy green bosom rises! An emerald set in the ring of the sea. Each blade of thy meadows my faithful heart prizes, Thou queen of the west, the world's cushla ma chree.

John Philpot Curran

From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Robert Browning

Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters.

George Cooper (1)

Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and the seafarers mark As a shrine where the sunlight serves, though the blown clouds hover, Sark.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Island of bliss! amid the subject Seas, That thunder round thy rocky coasts, set up, At once the wonder, terror, and delight Of distant nations; whose remotest shore Can soon be shaken by thy naval arm; Not to be shook thyself, but all assaults Baffling, like thy hoar cliffs the loud sea-wave.

James Thomson (1)

On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.

Edgar Allan Poe

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.

George Bible

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy'— I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze, A Sapphire on her brow should bind, 'Twill cure diseases of the mind.

Unattributed Author

A corrupt judge does not carefully search for the truth. [Lat., Male verum examinat omnis Corruptus judex.]

Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.

Lord Byron

Blush, happy maiden, when you feel The lips which press love's glowing seal; But as the slow years darklier roll, Grown wiser, the experienced soul Will own as dearer far than they The lips which kiss the tears away.

Elizabeth Akers Allen ("Florence Percy")

But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

Francis Bible

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

John A. Wheeler

She was a perfect lady--just sat in her seat and stared.

Eudora Welty

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