Prof. F. A. P. Aveling

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

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The Talmud

Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion.

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William Hazlitt

Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

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Cornelius Stam

When Paul went to the Jew first, it was not because it seemed that Israel might yet accept Christ and His kingdom, but simply because God would leave Israel no excuse for rejecting Messiah. Paul confirmed Peter's message, and mightily contended with the Jews everywhere that 'Jesus is the Christ.' And miracles accompanied this confirmation testimony--greater miracles, indeed, than Peter himself had wrought. But, unlike Peter, Paul never offered the kingdom to Israel. His ministry among them was not to turn the nation to Christ, but to save any from among them who might believe, receiving salvation by grace, and to leave the rest without excuse. Thus God was concluding Israel in unbelief and, even at that early date, mightily using Paul to proclaim grace to the Gentiles.

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Aeschylus

Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart.

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Sir Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

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Elizabeth I

All my possessions for a moment of time.

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Cleobulus

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

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James Goldsmith

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

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Virgil

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art.

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Anne-Sophie Swetchine

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable'

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