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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

Francois Rabelais

Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
The Devil was sick – the Devil a monk would be, The Devil was well the devil a monk was he.
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Devil Himself Monk Sick
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.
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Doctor Happiness Sick Way
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue…. In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
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Knowledge Myself Profit Study Virtue Youth
If you wish to be good “Pantagruelists” (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.
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Anand Thakur
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.
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Believe Herself Subject Symbol Word
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
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Devil Shame Truth
Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.
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Corruption Easy Happiness Serve
Of a young hermit, an old devil.
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Anand Thakur
If in your soil it takes, to heaven A thousand thousand thanks be given; And say with France, it goodly goes, Where the Pantagruelion grows.
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Growth Heaven Thankful
It’s a shame to be called “educated” those who do not study the ancient Greek writers.
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Ancient Education Shame Study Writing
The appetite grows with eating.
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Appetite Eat
I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.
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Comfort God Prayer Save Sleep

The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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The right moment wears a full head of hair: when it has been missed, you can’t get it back; it’s bald in the back of the head and never turns around.

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