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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
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
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
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
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
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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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
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
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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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
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
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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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
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

Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.

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