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Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.


Charles Caleb Colton

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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
T.S. ELIOT Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.
SAMUEL JOHNSON One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
IDRIES SHAH It a wretched thing to suffer at the hand of one of whom we cannot complain.
UNKNOWN You cannot take away freedom to protect it, you cannot destroy the free market to save it, and you c...
GLENN BECK You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents...
SRI CHINMOY We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
MARY ROBERTS RHINEHART A naked person is one whom even a thousand people cannot undress.
VIKRANT PARSAI To whom thy secret thou dost tell, To him thy freedom thou dost sell
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God tho...
WILLIAM AMES We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh
AGNES REPPLIER We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER To be forgotten by the one to whom you cannot forget is the worst thing ever happens.
ZUBAIR AHMED (Z.A) Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God.
ST. ATHANASIUS God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
ALPHONSUS LIGUORI Love is a chemical reaction, but it cannot be fully understood or defined by science. And though a b...
SUZY KASSEM True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -Charles Ca...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON And certainly We know that they say: Only a mortal teaches him. The tongue of him whom they reproach...
QURAN In order to cooperate with him, you cannot weaken him beyond a certain point, you cannot humiliate h...
EHUD BARAK To the spiritual perplexity which exercised so many of the rarest souls of the nineteenth century, G...
JOHN BAILLIE Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literat...
JAMES CONNOLLY To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us..
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Be strong, live happy, and love, but first of all Him whom to love is to obey
JOHN MILTON We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The Commission cannot simultaneously claim that a trustee is its own expert, with whom all exchanges...
IAN FORRESTER In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will.
CORMAC MCCARTHY A person who lives by the rules of the world cannot resist the devil, cannot fight him
SUNDAY ADELAJA Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.
JAMES CASH PENNEY Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, wh...
ELENI ZAUDE GABRE-MADHIN It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.
AGNES REPPLIER And he said, O my LORD, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send.
BIBLE In Whom is the Universe, Who is in the Universe, Who is the Universe; in Whom is the Soul, Who is in...
KUNAL NARAYAN UNIYAL Waiting is a period of learning. The longer we wait, the more we hear about him for whom we are wait...
HENRI NOUWEN A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT There is no human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT He Who Has None Has Him And Whom He Is With Needs No One
HASAN SURTIWALA The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
BIBLE There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her ...
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her ...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Unfortunately for Nigel he has a pack of players in front of him, some of whom are the best in the w...
ALAN PARDEW Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the frien...
JOHN BAPTISTE DUBOIS And We have made in it means of subsistence for you and for him for whom you are not the suppliers.
QURAN The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
THOMAS JEFFERSON There are more references in the Koran than the Bible to Mary, the mother of Jesus. -Julia W-.
JULIA W Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the...
JUNIUS The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty.
ADLAI E. STEVENSON Sir Drake whom well the world's end knew Which thou did'st compass round, And whom both Poles ...
JOHN OWEN ("BRITISH MARTIAL") The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development o...
MAURICE HINCHEY As the male is to whom a wife cleaves, even so is the son whom she brings forth, let him therefore c...
GURU NANAK This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay h...
PAUL WATZLAWICK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?
BIBLE Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed: ...
BIBLE The people against whom I defended my country in the war ... have an interest in silencing me and ca...
ZDENKO TOMANOVIC A person is always ready to favour him from whom he received a gift in the past.
VIKRANT PARSAI Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his...
MORTIMER COLLINS Any death is stupid from the viewpoint of whoever is undergoing it, Adam One used to say, because no...
MARGARET ATWOOD Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me o...
FATHER JOHN NICHOLAS GROU, S.J. My first relationship is with my brother. If I cannot maintain any relationship with him and I canno...
APURVA GAGLANI There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her cit...
DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER Love is a chemical reaction,
But it cannot be fully understood or defined by science.
And ...
SUZY KASSEM You cannot gage the intelligence of an American by talking with him
ERIC HOFFER Allah has revealed the best announcement, a book conformable in its various parts, repeating, wherea...
QURAN Coming to Rome, much labor and little profit! The King whom you seek here, unless you bring Him with...
SOURCE UNKNOWN I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and ...
DONALD CARGILL To live is nothing, unless to live be to know Him by whom we live.
JOHN RUSKIN I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.
BIBLE I do myself a greater injury in lying than I do him of whom I tell a lie.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not...
BIBLE The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its nati...
EDWIN BOOTH Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
VOLTAIRE Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET) What is not in a man cannot come out of him surely.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Pa...
BIBLE This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to igno...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to...
BIBLE The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the so...
QUEEN LILIUOKALANI OF HAWAII The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
BIBLE I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the ...
KATHERINE BOO Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason
ENGLISH PROVERB People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
CARLO GOLDONI Be strong, live happy and love, but first of all
Him whom to love is to obey, and keep
His...
JOHN MILTON Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the min...
BAYARD RUSTIN The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholes...
WILLIAM JAMES He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him ea...
NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV I cannot permit him to testify in this court of inquiry.
CHARLES GITTINS The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
SIR RICHARD STEELE I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.
RICHARD STEELE Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER) Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
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CHARLES CALEB COLTON Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Through the proportion of those who think be extremely small, yet every individual flatters himself ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse in a mill
CHARLES CALEB COLTON War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so sav...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this paradox in pride--it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Contemporaries appreciate the man rather than his merit; posterity will regard the merit rather than...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The old ways are the safest and surest ways
CHARLES CALEB COLTON We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old sy...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one pro...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, real...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them
CHARLES CALEB COLTON If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all t...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON