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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
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
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
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
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
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
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
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
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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