#de

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength. ↗

— Robert Browning

#buries #hangs #land #loaded #sea

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#always #better #change #evident #feel

I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#i #never #said #were

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fall #hardest #his #make #man

Ability is commonly found to consist mainly in a high degree of solemnity. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #consist #degree #found #high

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#convenient #deity #drunk #excuse #getting

Creditor. One of a tribe of savages dwelling beyond the Financial Straits and dreaded for their desolating incursions. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#creditor #dreaded #dwelling #financial #savages

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#any #controversy #either #impartial #perceive

Your current circumstances are part of your redemption story He is writing. ↗

— Evinda Lepins

#god #god-s-plan #god-s-will #life #life-lessons

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game