Let me make sure I've got this right. One night in December - in the middle of the rainy season - Joseph returns home from work and announces to his wife, Mary (a young lass of thireteen or fourteen in her ninth month of pregnancy) that they must immediately depart for Bethlehem in order to fulfill some vague scriptural prophecy. It's a journey of over one hundred and thirty kilometers that passes through some of the most treacherous and hostile territory in all of Jerusalem. However, Mary, despite being jerked and jostled on the back of a jackass and struggling on foot through thick muck and mire, manages to complete this arduous trek without hemorrhaging, breaking her water, or using harsh language. No doubt this has to be another one of those take it on 'faith' stories, right?
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
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I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
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The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.
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Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
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I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
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After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
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We will have a very rainy period and my advice as sheriff is not to drive during that time, ... It is a very dangerous time.
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An angler is a man who spends rainy days sitting around on the muddy banks of rivers doing nothing because his wife won’t let him do it at home.
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Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching.
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A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward.
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Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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Friendship is a cozy shelter from lifes rainy days
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A tendency could not but arise to reconcile with Christian profession a good many modes of life, enjoyments, occupations, social actions and customs, from which the first Christians had recoiled.
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The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a rainy day and the unexpected arrival of rain.
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Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
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I do pity unlearned people on a rainy day.
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God made rainy days so gardeners could get the housework done.
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