Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us
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Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.Francis Quarles
He that gives all, though but little, gives much because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.
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And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
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Wickedness is its own punishment.
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Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
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That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
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