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Ambrose Inspirational Quotes (1077)

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Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.
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Insurrection. An unsuccessful revolution disaffection's failure to substitute misrule for bad government.
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An archbishop is an ecclesiastical dignitary one point holier than a bishop.
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Loquacity, n. A disorder which renders the sufferer unable to curb his tongue when you wish to talk.
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LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and mechanize its methods.
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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of requiescat in pace, attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than reductus in pulvis.
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WRATH, n. Anger of a superior quality and degree, appropriate to exalted characters and momentous occasions as, the wrath of God, the day of wrath, etc. . . .
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POSITIVISM- A philosophy that denies our knowledge of the Real and affirms our ignorance of the Apparent. Its longest exponent is Comte, its broadest Mill and its thickest Spencer.
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Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
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To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.
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An auctioneer is a man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
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Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.
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MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
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Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar tumble-bug. It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity.
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The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself.
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REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/ At work upon a book, and so read out of it/ The qualities that you have first read into it.
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A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art. As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the pa
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CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.
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INADMISSIBLE- Not competent to be considered. Hearsay evidence is inadmissible ... but there is no religion in the world that has any other basis than hearsay evidence.
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ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly (Musca maledicta). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.
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Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
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MERCY, n. An attribute beloved of detected offenders.
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CEMETERY, n. An isolated suburban spot where mourners match lies, poets write at a target and stone-cutters spell for a wager.
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