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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Advantage Men Myself Name Rich Seek
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Himself Man State Trust
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
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
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom

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