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Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.
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Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry, all things easy. He that rises late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night, while laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
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Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright.
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So I think we should stay focused on the real problem in the Middle East. It's not Israel. It's these dictatorships that are developing nuclear weapons with the specific goal of wiping Israel away.
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
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So much of football relates to Christian life - sacrifice, commitment, discipline.
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Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
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Some persons are so devotional they have not one bit of true religion in them.
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Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.
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Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
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Sometimes, we feel like we don't want to offend people, but there are times that we need to express ourselves without fear that somebody is going to shut us down simply because we have differing opinions. That's how we grow.
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Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
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Studying music involves a lot of mathematics and a lot of exercises of memory. Or you've got to be able to be like somebody, to play like somebody, to play Mozart's music the way he played it and how he intended it. You've got to make it perfect, and that's not what I want to do. Although it is beautiful.
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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth.
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Take time for all things; great haste makes great waste.
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Taking this view of the matter, the Anarchists contend that defence is not an essential of the State, but that aggression is.
Address to Unitarian Ministers -
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
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Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.
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