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'Twas a light that made
Darkness itself appear
A thing of comfort.

Light

The birds of hope are everywhere, listen to them sing.

Hope

A man who wants to do something will find a way; a man who doesn't will find an excuse.

Motivation Procrastination Productivity Progress Psychology

I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party!

Attitude

O matre pulchra filia pulchrior.
O daughter, more beautiful than thy lovely mother.

Beauty

Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt conquered a confirmed habit of living into which she had fallen.

Life

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

Miscellaneous

Handsome is that handsome does.

Beauty

Without publicity there can be no public spirit, and without public spirit every nation must decay.

Publicity

Love is love's reward.

Love

Eternal smiles his emptiness betray,
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.

Smiles

I am tired. Everyone's tired of my turmoil.

Depression Loneliness

Sleep, the fresh dew of languid love, the rain
Whose drops quench kisses till they burn again.

Sleep

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Winning

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

Certainty

I am in full possession of the amazing power of being sarcastic.

Humor

For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.

Money

I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.

Man

Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.

Miscellaneous

When night hath set her silver lamp on high,
Then is the time for study.

Studying