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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

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Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.

English Proverbs (1670)

Money and friendship bribe justice.
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.

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If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

Prate us but prade; it's money buys land
Money begets money.

English Proverbs (1670)

He that useth many words for the explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttle fish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

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When the mind is not dissipated upon extraneous things, nor diffused over the world about us through the senses, it withdraws within itself, and of its own accord ascends to the contemplation of God.

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God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.

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