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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that.... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. ~Abraham Cowley



Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven. ~Psalms 85:10-11



From the manner in which a woman draws her thread at every stitch of her needlework, any other woman can surmise her thoughts. ~Honore de Balzac



I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree. ~James Douglas



Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events. ~Bertrand Russell



Morphine and state relief are the same. You go dopey, feel better and are worse off. ~Martin H. Fischer



There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. ~Mark Twain



Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ~C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971



The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. ~Joan Kerr, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, 1957



Louise: "How did you get here?"



Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. ~Charlotte Perkins Gilman



Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg



We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, Following the Equator, 1897



Justice is incidental to law and order. ~John Edgar Hoover



People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne



Most smiles are started by another smile. ~Author Unknown



Bush and Gore make me want to Ralph! ~Author Unknown



An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold H. Glasgow



Grandfathers are just antique little boys. ~Author Unknown



God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse