For he who sees a need but waits to be asked is already set on cruel refusal.
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.
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Love is friendship set on fire.
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Nero contrived all manners of punishments for the Christians that the most infernal imagination could design. In particular, he had some sewed up in skins of wild beasts, and then worried by dogs until they expired; and others dressed in shirts made stiff with wax, fixed to axletrees, and set on fire in his gardens, in order to illuminate the gardens. This persecution was general throughout the whole Roman Empire; but it rather increased than diminished the spirit of Christianity.
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What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country
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There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
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Pride, envy, avarice -- these are the sparks have set on fire the souls of man.
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Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.
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The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, Thus far and no farther. We set the limits of thought. The Greek said, All things are to be examined and called into question. There are no limits set on thought.
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
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Limits have to be set on how far one can simply use the... cleverness that we have to make changes.
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When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
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The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him
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Romans 8:5:
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires.
(NIV)
For those who are according to the flesh and are controlled by its unholy desires set their minds on and pursue those things which gratify the flesh, but those who are according to the Spirit and are controlled by the desires of the Spirit set their minds on and seek those things which gratify the [Holy] Spirit.
(AMP)
For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
(KJV)
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Matthew 5:14:
'You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.'
(NIV)
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
(AMP)
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.
(KJV)
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Colossians 3:2:
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
(NIV)
And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.
(AMP)
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
(KJV)
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