"There is no contending with necessity, and we……" — Roger L'Estrange
"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 be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must."
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Roger L'Estrange
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15 Quotes by Roger L'Estrange
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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…
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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…
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Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay…
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The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the…
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