A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
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I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
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Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and the Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.
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The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts.
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A Parliament is that to the Commonwealth which the soul is to the body. It behooves us therefore to keep the facility of that soul from distemper.
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The caterpillars of the commonwealth, Which I have sworn to weed and pluck away.
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Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.
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Philippians 3:20:
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ
(NIV)
But we are citizens of the state (commonwealth, homeland) which is in heaven, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await [the coming of] the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) [as] Savior
(AMP)
For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:
(KJV)
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I'the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things; for no kind of traffic...
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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
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