No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.
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It's not the rules and regulations you follow carefully that will win you favor with God but rather offering your life to Him in complete faith that His Son, Jesus Christ, conquered sin and death on your behalf and for your salvation.
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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women. (On appointing 10 women to top government positions)
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Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.
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As riches and favor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
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The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor
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Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it
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I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
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We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party
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The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery
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See I think drugs have done some good things for us, I really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor: go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes, and all your cds and burn 'em. 'cause you know the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years.. Rrrrrrrrreal f**kin high on drugs.
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Everybody is always in favor of general economy and particular expenditure
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I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office
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He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
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What a great favor God does to those He places in the company of good people!
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Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
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A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
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A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor
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He whom the gods favor dies in youth
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But an officer on duty knows no one -- to be partial is to dishonor both himself and the object of his illadvised favor. What will be thought of him who exacts of his friends that which disgraces him? Look at him who winks at and overlooks offences in one, which he causes to be punished in another, and contrast him with the inflexible soldier who does his duty faithfully, notwithstanding it occasionally wars with his private feelings. The conduct of one will be venerated and emulated, the other detested as a satire upon soldiership and honor.
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