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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow


Joseph Addison

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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.
SIR WALTER SCOTT You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of...
NAVEEN JAIN What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.
ALEXANDER POPE What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things,.....
ALEXANDER POPE It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentl...
JOSEPH ADDISON A lot of children are active in sports, and I thought it would be fun to let people know what Addiso...
DON FIGARELLI There are no lessons to be learned from the past. This is the first thing I learned from it. There i...
TOM LICHTENBERG We're a long way from what anybody would call dire straits,
PETER SCHOOMAKER Discharge my followers; let them hence away,
From Richard's night to Bolingbrooke's fair day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE mistrust to trust, from discord to concord and from tension to peace.
ATAL VAJPAYEE mistrust to trust, from discord to concord and from tension to peace.
ATAL BEHARI VAJPAYEE It seems the great advantage of people who annoy us is motivation to engage in reflection.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE No political party deserves to win unless it lays out a plan for Americans to win.
AL FROM A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be tough.
AL FROM We not only need to know who we are, we need to tell people who we are. We didn't have much to say i...
AL FROM He helps Gore by re-cementing the direction for this party.
AL FROM He won voters [with annual incomes of] under $50,000--but they're less than half the electorate in t...
AL FROM We can help parents raise kids by adopting a uniform media rating system and banning marketing of vi...
AL FROM The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day o...
FROM "TAXI" In 1996, President Clinton put together a detailed agenda called 'A Bridge to the 21st Century&#...
AL FROM A Democrat has to show the toughness to govern. People don't doubt that Republicans will be toug...
AL FROM Know from the bounteous heavens all riches flow; And what man gives, the gods by man bestow.
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JEAN ANOUILH http://www.colorbuckket.com/block-prints Block prints from jaipur, Block prints from india, Block pr...
COLORBUCKKET From this day forward, the benefits of any agreements we reach will flow only to those nations that ...
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STEPHEN KING Close your eyes, breath deep, visualise your outcome and let the energy flow from within.
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Do not demand from others what you would not expect of yourself.
DANIEL MELGAçO Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of o...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE What Cato did, and Addison approved, Cannot be wrong
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CHARLES B. RANGEL the two girls emanated an incorrigible idle inertia.
WILLIAM FAULKNER Learn from mistake,& make worth of second chance.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Jika berfikir positif, ternyata mengenal seseorang secara emosional memberikan akses pada sebuah ban...
ANDREA HIRATA Part of the process of getting what you want is learning what you don't want.
JIM GENOVESE Life can be tough & make you wanna give up. But baby keep your head up because you got all the time ...
LILLIAN S. VILORIA We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much ...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE So that in the nature of man,
we find three principal causes of quarrel:

First, Comp...
THOMAS HOBBES “This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. T...
CHARLIE BROWN Iam kind of hoping the rest of my night will be full os regretful behavior and irreversible decision...
CHRISTINE ZOLENDZ It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER ...The Little From Everything...
DEYTH BANGER One of the most interesting parts of writing is that you can think about it all of the time. Writers...
EDGARDO H. PANGILINAN By God, I could make myself bring her that economically halved grapefruit, that sugarless breakfast.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.
DAVE PELZER Henry would never come right out and tell Eddie not to do something; would never just walk up to him...
STEPHEN KING ...these things had to be kept secret because Henry was Eddie’s big brother, and Eddie adored him.
STEPHEN KING I got lost in the night, without the light
of your eyelids, and when the night surrounded me PABLO NERUDA From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for...
KOFI ANNAN An enemy, Ender Wiggin," whispered the old man. "I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD It doesn’t matter how bitter or better the past has been, what we can do with the bitter or better...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and p...
DANIEL BOONE You should never let your fears prevent you from doing what you know is right.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI Why we love with close hearts
Why we love with souls apart
Let the love flow from hearts ...
MEGHA KHARE My your heart never be bitter as dandelion greens but let it be sweet as honey and flow from your ac...
STARGAZER There is more than one road to spiritual salvation. We discover a philosophical way of living by enc...
KILROY J. OLDSTER What if discord comes from a lack of love awareness? How might an awareness of that change how we in...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded m...
CAROLYN WELLS Out of clutter find simplicity. From Discord make harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportun...
ALBERT EINSTEIN There are many who criticise the United Nations. And those of us who know this institution well know...
KEVIN RUDD It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.
MARY MACLANE A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio...
MARTIN LUTHER Sent from my Apple Lisa
ROGER KIBBE Sent from my Coleco Adam
ROGER KIBBE Then I start to struggle
With a feeble song
Which will overcome me
Many miles from ho...
LEONARD COHEN Sent from my Altair 8800
ROGER KIBBE Sent from my IBM PC Jr
ROGER KIBBE Top surface layer rots first to erode the entire value of system. Change it to correct before the de...
ANUJ SOMANY To be free from control is like to have a heavy cross to carry one moment then tossing it aside the ...
GARY F EVANS... The sight of a child…will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons — longings which r...
C.G. JUNG Ignorance is pass from one generation to other.
DEYTH BANGER Pain by itself made from words which have gone to action, by itself is unsolveable problem.
DEYTH BANGER The purpose of influence is to "speak up for those who have no influence." (Pr.31:8) It's not about ...
RICK WARREN The people who drive us nuts often change us most.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act; When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... Run... That's what's going to save you from the deadly virus

"PORNOGRAPHY
DEYTH BANGER Sent from my Commodore Pet
ROGER KIBBE But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's...
ELIZABETH GILBERT sixty years old and lives for the 3 f's--friends, family, and France.
JAMIE IVEY Don't bruise the Foo!
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Every mistake is a new style.
MICHAEL MEADE This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT Wine books flow from printing presses like water from broken spigots.
HOWARD G. GOLDBERG The problem is the combined effects of the disruptions from Katrina and Rita, plus the ripple effect...
NARIMAN BEHRAVESH Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of ...
CATERPILLAR FROM ALICE Joseph and his mother come from the black kings who were before the white man.
PETER ABRAHAMS That is a fair summary of the problem, ... and it came from Senator Joseph Lieberman.
DICK CHENEY My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.
GEORGE MACDONALD Vision is the main ingredient that separates the developed nations from the developing nations.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A river flow freely from its source.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA All Socialism is Democratic Socialism. Socialist nations take away civil liberties by referendum.
A.E. SAMAAN

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JOSEPH ADDISON The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
JOSEPH ADDISON A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed ...
JOSEPH ADDISON O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss,...
JOSEPH ADDISON From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON And pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.
JOSEPH ADDISON Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r ...
JOSEPH ADDISON It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. ...
JOSEPH ADDISON To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, ...
JOSEPH ADDISON Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
JOSEPH ADDISON