Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. - Francis Quarles

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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Francis Quarles

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

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I wish thee as much pleasure in the reading, as I had in the writing.

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Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

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Heav'n is not always got by running.

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Every man's vanity ought to be his greatest shame; and every man's folly ought to be his greatest secret.

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Hath any wounded thee with injuries? Meet them with patience. Hasty words rankle the wound; soft language dresses it.

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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.

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Those were the places where many people mixed if they wanted to mix, which was against the law [ Immorality Act of 1927]. My mother was part of that group. My father was part of that group. People who were black and whites and Indian and Asian - and you came together and said, we choose to mix at the risk of being arrested. And so they did.

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