Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.
Albert Einstein
He had everything a dream boy should have. Back, front, sides, Everything. A head.
Louise Rennison
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
The US patent system adds the fuel of interest to the fire of genius in the discovery and production of new and useful things.
Abraham Lincoln
If you wish a thing done, get some one to do it for you; but if you wish it done well, do it yourself.
John Jacob Astor
In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.
Abraham Lincoln
Like restless birds, the breath of coming rain
Creeps, lilac-laden, up the village street
John McCrae
In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time.
Abraham Lincoln
In our apartment in New York we'd see something out of the corner of our eye but we didn't know what it was, and when we moved we never saw it again.
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.
Albert Einstein
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.
William Howard Taft
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.
Thomas Carlyle
