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"When troubles come, they come not with single spies; but in battalions..."
-Shakespear
"No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between his shoulder-blades will seriously cramp his style."
"Hope is a good thing; maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies."
-Andy Dufrane, "The Shawshank Redemption
"What we leave behind is not as important as how we live."
-unknown
"We are born naked, wet, and hungry; then things get worse."
-unknown
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes; but inn havin new eyes."
-Marcel Provst
"Remember, you cannot abandon what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself."
-Sri Nisargadatta Maharag
"The seed of God is in us... Pear seeds grow into Pear trees, hazel seeds into hazel trees, and God seeds into God."
-Meister Eckhart
"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy ever minute of it!"
-unknown
They tell you that you're beautiful,
and they'll always let you in.
But doors are never open,
To the Child without a trace of sin.
Sail Away!
-"All the Fools Sailed Away"
Dio
"Every man dies; not everyman really lives."
-William Wallace
"Remind Anthony to keep his Legions intact; they make the law legal."
-Julius Gaius Ceaser
"Cleopatra"
"Let's do it..."
"The last ride of Wyatt Earp and his immortals."
-"Tombstone"
"I'm your Huckleberry..."
-Doc Holiday
"Tombstone"
There is no salvation without destruction; no hope this side of death.
-The Karaethon Cycle
"You saw them walking on the water
You've watched them flying through the sky
They were frightening in the darkness
They had rainbows in their eyes."
-Dio, "Egypt"
"Death is just another part of life, it is when we are truly born."
The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that those who seek their own happiness do not find it; that those who are weak must suffer; that those who demand love will be dissapointed; that those who are greedy will not be fed; that those who seek peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for those who do not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
"True heroics must be carefully planned -- and strenously avoided."
"...What would and angel say?
The Devil wants to know..."
Death is lighter than a feather;
Duty, heavier than a mountain.
"It's something you'll get used to,
A mental mind-f@ck can be nice."
Allie: "So... Chris, do you believe in God?"
Chris: "I believe this; there is a God, and I'm not him."
"Leadership, Friendship, and Service"
"Close" only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and Thermo-nuclear war.
Peace is the happy, natural state of man; war, his corruption, his disgrace.
"The alternative to peace is not war. It is annihilation."
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
"There are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."
"The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils."
"He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven."
"We are all more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the charactors of those among us whom we live."
"Fables, like parables, ae more ancient than formal arguments and are often the most effective means of presenting and impressing both truth and duty."
"There is no little enemy."
"All's well that ends well; still the finis is the crown."
"He who conquers, endures."
"It is much safer to reconcile an enemy than to conquer him; victory may deprie himof his poison, but reconciliation of his will."
"Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults."
"It is the enemy whom we do not suspect who is the most dangerous."
"Our worst enemies are those we carry about with us in our own hearts. Adam fell in Paradise and Lucifer in heaven, while Lot continued righteous in Sodom."
"Our enemies are our outward consciences."
"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
"If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor."
"I made courtiers; I never pretended to make friends, said Napoleon... On a rocky little island he fretted away the last years of his life-- alone."
"Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."
"The light of friendship is like the light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all is dark."
"False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we wlak in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade."
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue frim and constant."
"The loss of a friend is like that of a limb, time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss can never be repaired."
"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."
"The only way to have a friend is to be one."
"Sometimes the best gain is to lose."
"A man there was, and they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had."
"The generous who is always just, and the just who is always generous, may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven."
"Life is the childhood of our immorality."
"We are immortal till our work is done."
"Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun."
"Our life cannot be pronounced happy till the last scene has closed with resignation and hope, and in the full prospcet of a blessed immortality beyond the grave.
This life has its duties that are great -- that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell."
"He that lives to live forever, never fears dying."
"There is pleasure enough in this life to make us wish to live, and pain enough to reconcile us to death when we can live no longer."
"One expresses well only the love he does not feel."
"In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys, is half taken."
"A woman we truly love is a religion."
"A lie that is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
"War destroys men, but luxury destroys mankind; at once corrupts the body and the mind."
"He repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses."
"A loving maiden grows unconciously more bold."
"Oblivion is a second death, which great minds dread more than the first."
"A suspicious parent makes an artful child."