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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
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
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
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
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
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
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
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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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
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
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

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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