No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear … - Euripides

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The best evidence of the Bible's being the word of God is to be found between its covers. It proves itself.

Euripides

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Conform, Earth, Men, Necessity, Opinion, Public Opinion

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Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

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Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure in the end. All is change; all yields its place and goes; to persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man. The coward despairs.

Blow, Man, Men, Place, Wind, Yield

Leave no stone unturned.

Beer, Book, Leave, Stone, Unturned, Wisdom

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Life, Man, Power, Powers, Safest, Wise

God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.

Bring, Dominion, Events, Heaven, Inevitable

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