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rlvaughn

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Perhaps apropos for the times.

“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” -- Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775, speech to the Virginia House of Burgesses

“Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.” -- General John Stark, American Revolutionary War soldier of New Hampshire (called the Hero of Bennington), 1909, in a message sent to a meeting of Bennington war veterans
 
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“Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.” -- Taylor Caldwell

“An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.” -- Taylor Caldwell
 
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Some Greek Quotations....(1)Philosophy is a longing after the heavenly wisdom. (2)The worship most acceptable to God comes from a cheerful and thankful heart. (3)The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (4) A just and good man is not capable of being dishonored. (5) It use to be said that the man who struck his wife or son laid his hands on that what was most sacred. -Plutarch (1) A brave mans spirit its vigor soon regains. (2) I shall hurl the spear, but Jove (the Hebrew Jehovah?) directs the blow. (3) Enjoy such things as thou hast, for God will give one thing and withhold the other.* (4)There was a great confusion of tongues (The tower of Babel?) -Homerus *I pray thee, O God, that I might be beautiful within. * (2) No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or in death. (3) Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away. . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him. (3) "If a man would move the world, he must first move himself. Socrates *A decent boldness ever meets with friends.*Light is the task where many share the toil. -Homer *(1) It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.(2)Happiness springs from action. (3) It is cowardice to shun the trials and crosses of life. (4) I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. (5) In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action. (6) There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man. *(7) Hope is a waking dream. (8)Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. –(9)We are what we repeatedly do. -Aristotle *(1)He who lives well is blessed and happy. *(2) The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. *(3) It is my opinion that learning brings danger to youth. (1Cor.8:1- Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.) (4) *It is experience that causes our life to move forward by the skills we acquire, while the want of experience subjects us to the effects of chance. * (5)The virtue that is in us comes not from nature, nor is it taught, but it is put in us by the divinity. * (6) Unless the foundations of a family be properly prepared and laid, those who are sprung from it must be necessarily unfortunate. *(7) Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher; and philosophy begins with wonder. (8) He whom love touches not walks in darkness. *(9) As empty vessels make the loudest sounds, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers. * (10) Virtue is a kind of health, beauty, and good habit of the soul. -Plato (1) Great men rejoice in adversity just as brave soldiers triumph in war. * (2) Calamity is virtues opportunity. (3)The foundation to true joy is in the conscience. *(4) Courage leads starward, fear toward death. -Seneca *How oft the darkest hour of despair breaks into the brightest dawn. (2) There is in the worst fortune the best chances for a happy change. -Euripides *It is easy to be brave at a safe distance (2)He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. (3)United we stand, divided we fall. -Aesop *Be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -Philo *Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. (2)Let deeds match words. -Plautus *The covetous man is ever in want. (2)Even as we speak jealous time flees- seize this day, and put little faith in tomorrow. -Horace *The Omnipotent Father, with his thunder made Olympus to tremble.(2) *Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it. *(3) My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. *(3) There is no excellency without difficulty. (4) * If you count the sunny and the cloudy days of a whole year, you will find that the sunny days predominate. (5) *All men's gains are the fruits of venturing.(6) "Both fortune and love befriend the bold." –Ovid *Character is destiny. - Heraclitus *(1) Each day should be passed though it was our last. (2) *The opportunity is often lost by deliberating. (3) *While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. *(4)-If your actions are upright and charitable, be assured they will augment your power and happiness. *(5) Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. *(6) Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. *Never find your delight in another's misfortune. (7) *A rolling stone gathers no moss. (8) *Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. (9)*Bad is the plan that admits no change. *(10) Beware the fury of a patient man. -Publius Syrus (1)*The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues. (2) *From Rusticus I received the impression that my character required improvement and discipline- (3) *Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain. (4) A mans worth is no greater than his ambitions. (5) In the morning let this thought be present: I am rising to a man's work. (6)Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to do. (7) *Our life is what our thoughts make it.(8) * To live happy is an inward power of the soul (9) *The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.-Marcus Aurelius (1) * A man of courage is also full of faith. (2)* The proof of a well trained mind is that it rejoices in the good and grieves at the opposite. * (3)We cannot employ the mind to advantage when we are filled with excessive food and drink. (4)If you aspire to the highest place it is no disgrace to stop at second, or even third. (5)* Inability to tell good from evil is the greatest worry of man's life. *(6) Gratitude is not only the greatest virtues, but the parent of all others. (7)*There is no place more delightful than home. (8) In prosperity let us particularly avoid pride, disdain and arrogance. -Cicero *(1) Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. * (2)There is no sense in crying over spilt milk.* (3) A short saying often contains much wisdom. -Sophocles * (1) Shun idleness, it is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals. (2) It is not love in which we should have painted blind, but self love. (3) The biggest reward for a thing well done is to have done it. -Voltaire *Virtue proceeds through effort.-Euripides *(1) Difficulties are things which show what men are made of. *(2) The man least dependent on the morrow goes on to meet the morrow cheerfully. * (3) He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has. *(4)There is only one way to happiness, and that is to stop worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will . Epictetus Wise men learn more from fools then fools from wise men. -Cato *Ability and necessity dwell near each other.Pythagoras *They are able because they think they are able. -Virgil *(1) While we ponder when to begin it becomes too late to do. (2) We make a pretext of difficulty to excuse our sloth. -Quintilian
 
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rlvaughn

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“For worldliness is that system of values and beliefs, behaviors and expectations, in any given culture that have at their center the fallen human being and that relegate to their periphery any thought about God. Worldliness is what makes sin look normal in any age and righteousness seem odd.” -- David F. Wells
 
Earth Wind and Fire

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JonC said:
I think this is my favorite so far.
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Here is another one to think on.

What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and debased, so craven and emasculated, that offers of government dole had become more important than their liberty and their humanity? Had they not know that power delegated to the government becomes the club of tyrants? They must have known. They had their own history to remember, and the history of five thousand years. Yet, they had willingly and knowingly, with all this knowledge, declared themselves unfit to manage their own affairs and had placed their lives, which belonged to God only, in the hands of sinister men who had long plotted to enslave them, by wars, by "directives," by "emergencies." In the name of the American people, the American people had been made captive.
Taylor Caldwell
 
JonC

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Earth Wind and Fire said:
Here is another one to think on.

What manner of men had lived in those days...who had so eagerly surrendered their sovereignty for a lie and a delusion? Why had they been so anxious to believe that the government could solve problems for them which had been pridefully solved, many times over, by their fathers? Had their characters become so weak and debased, so craven and emasculated, that offers of government dole had become more important than their liberty and their humanity? Had they not know that power delegated to the government becomes the club of tyrants? They must have known. They had their own history to remember, and the history of five thousand years. Yet, they had willingly and knowingly, with all this knowledge, declared themselves unfit to manage their own affairs and had placed their lives, which belonged to God only, in the hands of sinister men who had long plotted to enslave them, by wars, by "directives," by "emergencies." In the name of the American people, the American people had been made captive.
Taylor Caldwell
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I like that but it is too long for my quote book.

I like it because the "captives" go both ways. Many will live their lives based on what a government dictates - either accepting or rejecting something because it comes from the government rather than because of the truth of the thing. We get natural rebels and natural followers, both equally "sheeple".

It is interesting, anyway.
 
JonC

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"You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see."

C.S. Lewis
 
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I can read...except for a very big word we sometimes have. Like the word philosopher. Do you know what a philosopher is? Well...it's a man that thinks a lot, but doesn't do anything much about it. -- Anissa Jones (aka Buffy, Family Affair)
 
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“Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size” - Mark Twain.
 
Earth Wind and Fire

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I’ve always liked the stools. Here is an assortment of quotes from three stoic… Marcus Arelis, Seneca, Epictetus.


 
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Even Samuel Clemens showed an understanding of the stark difference between grace(unmerited favor) and merit(works) that even many who call themselves "Christians" do not understand.

"Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." - Mark Twain
 
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Just surfing the web I found this... Spiritual One-Liners By Douglas Jacoby... Enjoy!... Brother Glen:)

*Give God what's right - not what's left.
* "Pray" is a four-letter word you can say anywhere - except in public schools.
* Man's way leads to a hopeless end - God's way leads to an endless hope.
* A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
* He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
* To be almost saved is to be totally lost.
* In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma - but never let him be the period.
* Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
* God grades on the cross, not the curve.
* Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the church for a facelift.
* When praying, don't give God instructions - just report for duty.
* God doesn't want shares of your life - He wants a controlling interest.
* Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
* We don't change God's message - His message changes us.
* The church is prayer-conditioned.
* When God ordains, He sustains.
* WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.
* Plan ahead - It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
* Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.
* Suffering with truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
* Exercise daily - walk with the Lord.
* Coincidences happen when God chooses to remain anonymous.
* Wisdom has two parts - 1) having a lot to say 2) not saying it.
* Never give the devil a ride - he will always want to drive.
* A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
* Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
* Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
* He who angers you controls you.
* Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
* Give Satan an inch and he'll be a ruler.
* Forbidden fruits create many jams.
* Be ye fishers of men - you catch them & He'll clean them.
* Deciding not to choose Jesus is still making a choice.
* God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
* Read the Bible - It will scare the hell out of you.
* If God is your co-pilot - swap seats.
 
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.

Flannery O'Connor
 
KenH

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"O Lord, make me humble, and allow me not to depend upon anything it is in my power to perform." - Ruth Bryan
 
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