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I never sleep in comfort save when I am hearing a sermon or praying to God.

Francois Rabelais

He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.–Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,–loses horse and mule.
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Adventure Himself Horse Lose
I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.
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Drink Forever Myself
You have no obligation under the sun other than to discover your real needs, to fulfill them, and to rejoice in doing so.
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Discover Need Obligation Reality Sun Yourself
Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one’s business; and … it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.
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Bright Business Day Exercise Light Nature Oneself Sun
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.
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Greatness Play Purpose Seek
If the head is lost, all that perishes is the individual; if the balls are lost, all of human nature perishes.
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Head Human Individual Lost Nature Perish
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
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Abandonment Desire Holy Pervert Sacred
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
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Anand Thakur
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
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Conscience Ruin Science Soul
I build only living stones–men.
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Build Live Man Stone
No clock is more regular than the belly.
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Body Regular Wisdom
Against fortune the carter cracks his whip in vain.
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Crack Fortune Himself
All’s well in the end, if you’ve only the patience to wait.
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End Patience Wait Well
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
One should never pursue the hazards of fortune to their very ends andit behooves all adventurers to treat their good luck with reverence, neither bothering nor upsetting it.
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Adventure Bother End Fortune Pursue Upset

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