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What is deferred is not avoided.

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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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Medicine Ourselves Way
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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Creature Fear Live Yourself
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
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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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
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
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
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight Manner Peace
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

What is deferred is not avoided.

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