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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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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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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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Medicine Ourselves Way
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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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
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
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
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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