Battle Quote by Roger L'Estrange

“Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.”

Roger L'Estrange

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Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.

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We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

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He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.

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Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.

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A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

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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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