Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.


Francis Beaumont

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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
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All my joys to this are folly, / Naught so sweet as melancholy.
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She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
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It's delightful, it's delicious, it's de-lovely.
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What St. Francis and St. Dominic have done, that, by God's grace, I will do.
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There's nothing so rewarding as to make people realize they are worthwhile in this world.
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Too much plenty makes mouth dainty
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
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Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
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You are no better than you should be.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.
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'Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom ...
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Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
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All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
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Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
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Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
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Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
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Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
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As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
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It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
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Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
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Bad's the best of us.
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But what is past my help is past my care.
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Kiss till the cow comes home.
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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
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There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
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I love Birmingham, Michigan. It's lovely - you know, it's very similar to the Hamptons.
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
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It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
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Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
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You are no better than you should be.
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Here's an acre sown indeed, With the richest royalest seed.
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Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
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Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
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As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
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It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
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The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
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Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
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Bad's the best of us.
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But what is past my help is past my care.
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Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
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Kiss till the cow comes home.
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Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
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Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
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There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
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To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
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Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
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O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty a...
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Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! ...
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To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
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No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
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After supper walk a mile.
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I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
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Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
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What mare's nest hast thou found?
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Hit the nail on the head.
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I find the medicine worse than the malady.
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There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
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Charity and treating begin at home.
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Let them learn first to show pity at home.
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To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fai...
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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
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'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
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Beggars must be no choosers.
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There's nothing that allays an angry mind So soon as a sweet beauty.
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Death hath so many doors to let out life.
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We must all die! All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when, Nor how, so we die well; and...
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Hunger is sharper than the sword.
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An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in water. [Fr., L'injure se grave e...
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All your better deeds Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
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Deeds, not words.
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Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
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Something given that way.
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This is a pretty flimflam.
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As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
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No better than you should be.
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From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
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Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; a...
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It is always good When a man has two irons in the fire.
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Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
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I care not twopence.
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Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise: At least be more than I was; and be sure You cr...
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Vice gets more in this vicious world Than piety.
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Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose? Nutmegs and ginger, cinammo...
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It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
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Yet what are they, the learned and the great? Awhile of longer wonderment the theme! Who shall...
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Nothing is thought rare Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know That what was worn some tw...
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Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
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Kiss till the cows come home.
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But is there nothing else, That we may do but only walk? Methinks Brothers and sisters lawful...
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Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news.
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A civil habit Oft covers a good man.
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My dancing days are done.
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Evil beginning houres may end in good.
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Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
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Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.
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Three merry boys, and three merry boys, And three merry boys are we, As ever did sing in a hem...
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But they that are above Have ends in everything.
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What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.
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Calamity is man's true touch-stone. - Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
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Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
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Fountain-heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves!
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That place that does contain My books, the best companions, is to me A glorious court, where h...
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He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment.
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Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven; No pyramids set off his memories, But the eternal ...
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One foot in the grave.
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Fortune, now see, now proudly Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look, Look what thou h...
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A soul as white as Heaven.
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Sing a song of sixpence.
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Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, fo...
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And he that will to bed go sober, Falls with the leaf still in October.
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It would talk; Lord, how it talked!
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'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
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Let's meet and either do or die.
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Of every noble action the intent Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
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'Tis a word that's quickly spoken, Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
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He shall have chariots easier than air, That I will have invented; . . . And thyself, That art...
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Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther The more experience finds you: And go sparing;-- ...
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I'll put that in my considering cap.
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There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees.
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Let the world slide.
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Whistle, and she'll come to you.
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He comes not in my books.
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I'll have a fling.
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A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-...
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The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
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I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here.
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They'll have to figure out a way to bring water into Pine Bush from the rest of Crawford.
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If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
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Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
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Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
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Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
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Friends let friends wear purple.
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It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
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Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
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Why slander we the times? What crimes Have days and years, that we Thus charge them with...
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sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
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The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
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Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
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Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
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A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
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Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
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Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Money has to serve, not to rule.
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Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
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We all have the duty to do good.
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In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
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When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
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The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
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I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
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We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
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I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
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Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
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Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
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To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
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The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
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Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
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My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
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We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
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Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON
One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON