It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
THOMAS MOREBecause 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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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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