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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.
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Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
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A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
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...there is an element of Play that is almost ritualistic in Black folk life. It serves to mediate the tensions, stress, and pain of constant exploitation and oppression.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.
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After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.
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An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
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Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, and it serves you.
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Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
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He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
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Human service is the highest form of self-interest for the person who serves.
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I'm a great believer in karma, and the vengeance that it serves up to those who are deliberately mean is generally enough for me.
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Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
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Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals.
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No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
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