. The greatest English poet of the eighteenth century Alexander Pope penned these immortal words in his An Essay on Man:
Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never IS, but always TO be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
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Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 10, 2008
Humility and its expression - At a dinner party one night Lady Churchill was seated across the table from Sir Winston, who kept making his hand walk up and down -- two fingers bent at the knuckles. The fingers appeared to be walking toward Lady Churchill. Finally, her dinner partner asked, "Why
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us when we were down on Romney Marsh – and he went for a drive with Maddy.
When he came home, he said to me: “Dad, is Mum all right?”
“Yes”, I replied “Why do you ask?”
“Well”, Jez replied “When we were driving across the Marsh and we came to some black sheep – Mum called them “rainbow “sheep.
I
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Anglican
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 5, 2008
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In late July of 2008, this article appeared:
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - An Indian man who took an impersonator to court to get a divorce faces legal action after his real wife found out, lawyers said Friday.
Sanjib Saha presented a woman as his wife in a lower court in the eastern city of Kolkata
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Brian Harvison on Aug 16, 2008
We are living Life, Liberty and the Pursuit
But sometimes we are pursuing the wrong things in the wrong direction.
Did you hear the story about the elderly lady that had heard on the news about a car driving the wrong way on the interstate
She was so worried that her husband was in danger that she
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Baptist
Contributed by Davon Huss on Jun 1, 2009
THE PURPOSE OF GOOD LIGHTING
To convince the people of Philadelphia of the advantage of street lighting, Benjamin Franklin decided to show his neighbors be placing one in front of his house. He purchased an attractive lantern, polished the glass, and placed it on an extended pole in front of his
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by John Perry on Feb 9, 2010
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GOD SHOWING THROUGH
One Sunday morning a little girl on her way home from Sunday school in the car said to her parents, "I don't understand." Her parents said "What don't you understand, sweetheart?"
She said "Well, our Sunday school teacher today told us that God is inside of us!" "That's right
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Contributed by Gordon Curley on Dec 4, 2010
THEY DIDN'T LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER
For the first time in her life, four year-old Suzie had just been told the story of "Snow White." She could hardly wait to get home from nursery school to tell her mommy.
With wide-eyed excitement, she retold the fairy tale to her mother that afternoon. After
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Brethren
Contributed by Ronnie Miller on Jul 31, 2011
We live in a world today that we should sift all our children’s activities and things that they are exposed to each day as though we were looking and inspecting the candy they get on Halloween night and throw out the things that look suspicious. I know it’s hard and most of the time just impossible
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Contributed by Brad Froese on Oct 4, 2011
FLIGHT CHECK
When you're a pilot and you're getting ready to go on a flight, you always run through a checklist: to assess the air worthiness of the aircraft, and the conditions you'll be flying in before you commits to the flight because all the weather information and every surface and
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Assembly Of God
HIS PROMISES ARE TRUE
I once went fishing with a friend of mine once, he said he knew of a good spot to fish. We got there and - nothing! We were there for about an hour without one single bite! I was ready to go home, his promise of a great fishing hole wasnt panning out.
Then something hit my
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Contributed by Jim Butcher on Apr 11, 2018
What if you had a boss that demanded that you check in with him every ten minutes no matter what?
What if he required that even if you were in the middle of other important work in your office?
What if he demanded that whether you were at the office or at home?
What if he required that even if
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