At the Norman Invasion, the Saxon thanes were themselves humbled in turn; the manors were given a more legal character and transferred to favourites of William the Conqueror.

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

Author: Sabine Baring-Gould

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All great dreamers have great faith.

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A rainbow is not afraid of showing its true colors because it knows it is beautiful inside out.

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If your mind is misty, your life will be misty; if your mind is sunny, your life will be sunny! Your

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Angels are not supernatural beings who come from heaven knows where. Angels are human beings who con

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The spirit of pessimism inside of her was purely organic.

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The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever mo

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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

Author: Dave Barry
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Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than “I don’t like rollerblading” is a workout strategy.

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My capacity for having a good time exists. It surfaces, however, on odd occasions.

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To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

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I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they ar

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Opinions are like kittens," he commented. "People are always giving them away.

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There is a fuzzy but real distinction that can and I believe should be made, between patriotism, whi

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We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference

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Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than

Author: Anton Chekhov
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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It's the way tenure works, together with dismissal protections that tenured teachers have, that no o

Author: Campbell Brown
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You can't move beyond your past if you keep talking about it like it's your present.

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

Author: Herodotus
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The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Seeing him jogging at the park had cracked the window so I could peek into his soul. Seeing him with

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The United States initially poured money and arms into Pakistan in the hope of building a major figh

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It's the way some med say, "I'm not the problem" or that they shifted the conversation from actual c

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Sillman looked at his interrogator with hopeless eyes. 'I think while I was passed out, I dreamed ab

Author: Joe Hill
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Has every line inside of you been crossed? Is there anything left unviolated? Are you so comfortable

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In my view, far from deserving condemnation for their courageous reporting, the New York Times, the

Author: Hugo Black
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Marriage is wonderful.

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My wishing star glowed slightly and winked back at me. I could almost hear its voice, tinkling like

Author: Erica Sehyun Song
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When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for hi

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To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and te

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Like beliefs, in most cases, we don’t create our values… others do.

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If I have become so pathetically dulled that I hold freedom as my right and the privileges of libert

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There comes a point when you can only sweep so much under the rug, 'til you feel lumps under your fe

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If you are swept off your feet it's time to get on your knees.

Author: Fred Beck
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Living and dying are, in a sense, of equal value.

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True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

Author: Wilhelm von Humboldt
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The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.

Author: Red Auerbach
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Your imagination is the vehicle to enlightenment.

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Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you … and Ibelieve you love me as much, so

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You can never let your compassion stand in the way of justice because when you do, other people get

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Writing is my oxygen. Music is my carbon dioxide.

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Black is bountiful. White is witful. Both are beautiful.

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The most terrifying part was that the evil dwelling in those eyes could've gone unnoticed by many.

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Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

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Most people say that Shakespeare rocked merely because most people say that Shakespeare rocked.

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The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands

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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

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Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek fo

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To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according

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After a semester or so, my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.

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I want to be so famous that I'm the pop-culture reference that people would make to try and be racis

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The very idea of freedom incites fear in the hearts of terrorists across the world.

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Tomorrow will never call to ask your opinion

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If you don't know exactly what you want, that is exactly what you will get.

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Some people make the mistake of confusing "submission" with "weakness", whereas it is anything but.

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I like to feel dumb. That’s how I know there’s more in the world than me.

Author: Susan Sontag
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Do you think we’ll be waiting long?” Valkyrie asked,keeping her voice low.“The last time we were in

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I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not

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If your going to be a jackass then do it outside of your home, as your home is supposed to be a plac

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One of the Christian’s responsibilities in following Christ is to have a new attitude toward work. S

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All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of

Author: Upton Sinclair
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Yes, I always remember my dad's, mom's and my grandma's perfumes.

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Most of the great men who converted their time to products although late are still making more impac

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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

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Choose to be happy.It’s the only sensible option!

Author: Domonique Bertolucci
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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

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The hallmark of a decision in line with one’s inner development is a feeling of having laid down a b

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Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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RIP, to those that are no longer here in Body, for they give our minds a lesson in eternity...

Author: C. Barnett II
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What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

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Art in relation to life is nothing more than a glove turned inside out. It seems to have the same sh

Author: Morton Feldman
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Let your life choices tell others of your wonderful God as you walk through life worshiping Him.

Author: Elizabeth George
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The louder he talked of his honour the faster we counted our spoons.

Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival o

Author: Abigail Padgett
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[E]verywhere I'm looking at kids, adults mostly don't seem to like them, not even the parents do. Th

Author: Emma Donoghue
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If I might share my opinion, this world is hell, and our task is to create our own heaven.

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Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G., and in light of the ext

Author: Ben Bernanke
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Love to love, connection to connection, you carve your complicated path through life; leave one love

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I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatred t

Author: Ellen DeGeneres
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Surely you're not saying that the life of a human and the life of an animal are of the same value?'

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What though the radiance which was once so bright Be now for ever taken from my sight, Though nothin

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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of Sep

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Iran is not a make-believe country. It is a real country populated by some 75 million people - real

Author: Bob Barr
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Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!

Author: Ramana Pemmaraju
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The Lord will never forsake you. His presence is always with you everywhere you may go.

Author: Unknown
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We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We

Author: Wendell Berry
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If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.

Author: Alfred Nobel
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The guilt of not telling Frankie about Matt and me is overwhelming, but it's a pale second to the vi

Author: Sarah Ockler
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Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everyw

Author: Guy Debord
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My employees, there's no deductible in your health care. No deductible, absolutely not. You get paid

Author: Michael Moore
Quote #28380

Happiness is a healed heart.

Author: Unknown
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What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how

Author: Darnell Lamont Walker
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No battle plan can anticipate all contingencies. There are always unexpected factors including those

Author: Timothy Zahn
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Christ taught that in the sight of God one soul is worth the entire materialistic world! In God’s si

Author: Billy Graham
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When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

Author: Max Lucado
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What’s fair and what’s true often bear no resemblance to each other.

Author: Garon Whited
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Your past experiences will flavour your future ones, that is human nature.

Author: Deborah Cater