A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MORENobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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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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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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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 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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