To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,
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To My Dear And Loving HusbandIf ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were lov'd by wife, then thee. If ever wife was happy in a man,
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"If I am a fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of self-approved wisdom." Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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"I can see no evidence of beneficient design, or indeed design of any kind, in the details" Charles Darwin
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"Caution in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient."G.C. Lichtenberg (1742-179
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It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most—who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and str
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Riches are . . . long in getting—with much pains, hard in keeping—with much care, quick in losing—with more sorrow. (Thomas Fuller)
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Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride. (Richard Sibbes)
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When we are most lazy—the devil is most busy. Sloth is the cause of sin, and idleness the fruitful mother of wickedness. (Andrew Gray)
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There is a great deal of difference between falling into a temptation, and running into a temptation. The falling into a temptation shall work for good, not the running into it. He that falls into a river is capable of help and pity, but he
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead. — Aristotle, Greek Philosopher
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I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only. — Deborah J. Lightfoot, The Wysard
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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. Mary Wollstonecraft
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Is it not an unreasonable speech for a man at midnight to say, It will never be day? It is as unreasonable for a man in trouble to say, O Lord, I shall never get free; it will be always thus!