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“Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Source : Thomas Chalmers (1848). “Select Works of Thomas Chalmers ...: Comprising His Miscellanies; Lectures on Romans; Astronomical, Commercial and Congregational Discourses”, p.153
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“To define Buddhism without a lot of words and phrases, we can simply say, 'Don't cling or hold on to anything. Harmonize with actuality, with things as they are.'”
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“Much of the day I have busied myself making notes on the small parts in Shakespeare, often nameless, which are rewarding to the actor if only he'll not dismiss them as beneath his dignity. If I can work it up into a talk I might call it, 'Only a cough and a spit ' -the phrase so often used by actors to explain away a lack of opportunity.”
Source : Alec Guinness (1997). “My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor”, Viking Press
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“Please phrase your answer in the form of a question.”
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“A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.”
Source : Joseph Story, Edmund H. Bennett (1858). “Commentaries on the Constitution of the Un. States: With a Prelim. Review of the Constitut. History of the Colonies and States, Bef. the Adoption of the Constitution”, p.317
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“My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred”
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“What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour”
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“Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”
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“Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.”
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“But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.”
