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A merry companion is as good as a wagon.

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We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth.

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Night hath a thousand eyes.

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A clear conscience is a sure card.

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As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turneth to the deadliest hate.

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The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

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To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

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When ambition ends, happiness begins.

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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.

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We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

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The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.

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Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.

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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

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We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.

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Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

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A daydream is an evasion.

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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

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