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My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr. Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain

The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

- Thomas Fuller

When a man's willing and eager, God joins in.

- Aeschylus

April is the crudest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

- T. S. Eliot

Man is worse than an animal when he is an animal.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Men are always wicked at bottom unless they are made good by some compulsion.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

God bears with the wicked, but not forever.

- Cervantes

Weak men are apt to be cruel because they stick at nothing that may repair the ill effect of their mistakes.

- George, Lord Halifax

All cruelty springs from weakness.

- Seneca

I must be cruel Only to be kind.

- William Shakespeare

We are oftener treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

- La Rochefoucauld

When we do evil, We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

- W. H. Auden

Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.

- T. S. Eliot

We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked.

- James Thurber

Why inflict pain on oneself, when so many others are ready to save us the trouble?

- George W. Pacaud