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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.

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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Himself Man State Trust

I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.

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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.

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