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Farewell, my children; remain always in the fear of the Lord. That temptation and tribulation which is to come is now at hand and happy shall they who persevere in the good they have begun. I hasten to go to our Lord, to whose grace I recommend you.

William Saint

I must end it. There's no hope left. I'll be at peace. No one had anything to do with this. My decision totally.

Freddie Prinze

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Leonardo Da Vinci

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

William Shakespeare

Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

Richard Bach

Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't That sure th' have worn out Christendom.

William Shakespeare

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Paul Dickson

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Benjamin Franklin

Confessed faults are half-mended.

Scottish Proverb

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.]

Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)

That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo! Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]

Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus)

Jupiter has placed upon us two wallets. Hanging behind each person's back he has given one full of his own faults; in front he has hung a heavy one full of other people's. [Lat., Peras imposuit Jupiter nobis duas. Propriis repletam vitiis post tergum dedit; Alienis ante pectus supendit gravem.]

Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. [Lat., Beneficium accipere, libertatem est vendere.]

Syrus (Publilius Syrus)

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The wealth of rich feelings--the deep--the pure; With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure.

Frances S. Osgood

It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

Unattributed Bible

To be true to each other, let 'appen what maay Till the end o' the daay An the last load hoam.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.

Bill Vaughan

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Clara Cicero

He who attacks must vanquish. He who defends must merely survive.

Master Kahn

You show people what you're willing to fight for when you fight your friends.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Edgar R. Fiedler

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