That is not good language which all understand not. - George Herbert

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For an act may be wrong judged purely by itself, but when the motive that prompted the act is understood, it is construed differently. I lay it down as an axiom, that only that is criminal in the sight of God where crime is meditated.

George Herbert

That is not good language which all understand not.

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

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He that hath not the craft, let him shut up shop.

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A discontented man knowes not where to sit easie.

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He that commits a fault, thinkes every one speakes of it. [He that commits a fault thinks everyone speaks of it. ]

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Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing. . . a grateful heart!

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When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.

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Peace Pilgrim

Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try. . . When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.

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Mike Leigh

I make films because I am endlessly fascinated by people. I'm fascinated immediately to know about the lives that are going on around me. That is what drives me. And that is because everybody matters, everybody is there to be cared about, everybody is interesting and everybody is the potential central character in a story. Judging people is not acceptable.

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Pentti Linkola

How can anyone think so insanely that the human life has the same value and mankind, the same morality, independent of numbers? It is lucid to me that everytime a new child is born, the value of every human in world decreases slightly. It is obvious to me that the morality of the population explosion is wholly unlike than when man was a sparse, noble species in its beginning.

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