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Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with…
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Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money,…
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If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has…
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy,…
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Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one…
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The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the…
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but…
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona…
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.
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The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another's life, another's death, I stake my whole…
— Horatius Bonar
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True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to…
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He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
— Horace
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Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
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Is beauty a reminder of something we once knew, with poetry one of its vehicles? Does it give us a brief vision…
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Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.
— Swami Vivekananda
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There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.
— Thomas Paine
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Friendship needs to be rooted in respect, but love can live upon itself alone
— Ouida
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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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For true peace of mind we must acknowledge whatever fault we live upon, whatever time bomb ticks in our closet, and enjoy…
— Chungliang Al Huang
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A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God, and that the consequence is an inevitable doom. For a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
— Philip James Bailey
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