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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
Nor 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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Gold Substance Understand Value
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
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
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
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Goodness Man Writing
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom

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