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A habit does not a monk make.

Francois Rabelais

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The dress does not make the monk.
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Appearance Monk Saint
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
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Expectation Happiness Harm Natural True
Strike the iron whilst it is hot.
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The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.
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Forbidden God Myself Trust
Giving words is an act of lovers.
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Act Lover Word
Fate leads the willing, and th’ unwilling draws.
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Draw Fate Leadership Willing
I place no hope in my strength, nor in my works: but all my confidence is in God my protector, who never abandons those who have put all their hope and thought in him.
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Confidence Himself Hope Place Strength Thinking
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
Early rising is no pleasure; early drinking’s just the measure.
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Drinking Measurement Pleasure Rise
If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.
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Catch Fall Hope Oneself Sky
I’d rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.
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Courage Cry Human Laughter Man Writing
A crier of green sauce.
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Cry One Liner
Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.
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Mindset Oneself
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
Appetite comes with eating…..but thirst goes away with drinking.
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Appetite Drinking Eat Thirsty
Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.
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Diminish Liberty Man Memories Offering Reason Time

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