Roger L'Estrange Quotes
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He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
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By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.
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Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
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Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
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The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those…
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Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone that can make anyone happy or miserable.
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Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
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Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
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It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable.…
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Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
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The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
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There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to…
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Wickedness may prosper for a while.
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