Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters...
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A garden must be looked into, and dressed as the body.
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Living well is the best revenge.
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Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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The best mirror is an old friend.
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In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
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Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
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Whether I flie with angels, fall with dust, Thy hands made both, and I am there:...
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He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
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Every mile is two in winter.
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I take as my guide the hope of a saint in crucial things, unity - in important things, diversity - in all things, generosity.
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Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
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Holinesse on the head, Light and perfections on the breast,...
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One enemy is too much.
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Life is a businesse, not good cheer; Ever in warres....
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Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
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One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
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They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
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My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.
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Time is the rider that breaks youth.
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Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.
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Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.
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