What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORENor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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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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