The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

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GEORGE BURNS The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as cl...
GEORGE F. BURNS

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
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KELLY JONES

A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
FEDERICO FELLINI Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
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Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
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You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI

When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
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MAUREEN JOHNSON Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
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ART INABINET

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to be fierce as a...
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Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
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And He will judge and will forgive all, the good and the evil, the wise and the meek . . . And when ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD

A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
JOHN HEYWOOD

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
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I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
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As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Politics is a good thing!
LARRY J. SABATO Caffeine is a good thing.
MANOJ BHARGAVA

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules.

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STEVEN MOFFAT

Before we do, I suggest you take a break. If you need to go to the bathroom, this is a good time. If...
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
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CHANCE WHEELESS The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
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He who must travel happily must travel light.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY

It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.
PLATO Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
DAN BUCATINSKY

She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget...
CASSANDRA CLARE I love watching old movies, reading and having some good meals. I have a very close group of friends...
JUSTIN BARTHA

Be around people that make you want to be a better person, who make you feel good, make you laugh, a...
GERMANY KENT A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand...
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ELLIOT MABEUSE

Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER

Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS

I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
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Hodor," said Hodor.
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You do what you love, what you need
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I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
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If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
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I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
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Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
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We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
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You mistake patience for forbearance.
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Must sure become the creature;
But still the preaching cant forbea...
ROBERT BURNS

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
ROBERT BURNS

Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new.
ROBERT BURNS

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.
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Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date; Stern Ruin's plou...
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Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!
ROBERT BURNS

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty. [Fr., Contre les rebelles c'est cru...
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Ilk cowslip cup shall kep a tear.
ROBERT BURNS

And wild-scatter'd cowslips bedeck the green dale.
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Contented wi' little, and cantie wi' mair.
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I'll be merry and free, I'll be sad for nae-body; If nae-body cares for me, I'll care fo...
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To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd.
ROBERT BURNS

Without discipline the Army would just be a bunch of guys wearing the same color clothing.
FRANK BURNS

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

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The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.

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