Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to. ~Martin Luther
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Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox. ~English Proverb
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A handful of patience is worth a bushel of brains. ~Hobart Brown
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old. ~English Proverb.
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God gave burdens, also shoulders. ~Yiddish Proverbs
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And they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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It is not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while. ~Irish Proverb
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I try to write like the writers I admire, I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase. So I'm always looking for that angle in my own work. ~Brad Paisley
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If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that is lost, there is usually something gained. ~Merle Shain
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When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful! ~Soren Kierkegaard
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The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now. ~Chinese Proverb
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May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors. ~Michael Servetus
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May you get to Heaven half an hour before the Devil knows you're dead. ~Irish Proverb
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The growth of love is the essence within the soul. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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Most people don't see what's going on around them. That's my principal message to writers: "For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you." ~William S. Burroughs
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Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. ~Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight. ~English Proverb
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Clogs to clogs in three generations. ~English Proverb
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I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
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Let us help build the kingdom of God by standing up boldly and being defenders of marriage, parenthood, and the home. ~Bonnie L. Oscarson
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I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better. But every time I hear my flow on that song I wow myself. ~Tyler The Creator
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It takes the glory of God to conceal a matter. It takes the honor of the king to seek out for it. ~Tommy Tenney
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A loan though old is not gift. ~Hungarian Proverb
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