"Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please."
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"Better a long life of toil than a short one of ease."
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"When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease."
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"We ... must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow."
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""Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.""
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"I lean and loaf at my ease... observing a spear of summer grass."
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"Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?"
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"The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure."
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"Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible."
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"Governors being accustomed to hear of more crimes than they can punish, and more wrongs than they can redress, set themselves at ease by indiscriminate negligence, and presently forget the request when they lose sight of the petitioner."
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"The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while."
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"Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so."
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"And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable."
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"The very flexibility and ease which make men's friendships so agreeable while they endure, make them the easier to destroy and forget."
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"The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it."
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"This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease."
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"I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest."
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"To ease another's burden, help to carry it."
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"As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it."
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"What is he? He's a puppeteer and he's got a lot of inspiration all around him, and the fact that they can manipulate the expressions now with ease compared to what it used to be."
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