"Withough danger you cannot go beyond danger."
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"Would it even be possible to add a "suggested wallpaper" feature that analyzes your favored walls and shows similar ones?"
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"HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose"
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"Let anger's fire be slow to burn."
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"Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire."
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"A good heart cannot lye"
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"Was ever grief like mine?"
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"Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth."
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"The best smell is bread; the best saver, salt; the best love, that of children."
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"Teach me, my God and king In all things thee to see And what I do in anything To do it as for thee"
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"Many kiss the hand they wish cut off."
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"Stay a little and news will find you."
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"We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts."
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"If we can possibly avoid wrecking this little planet of ours, we will, But-there must be risks! There must be. In experimental work there always are!"
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"'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'"
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"Money refused loose its brightness."
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"It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush."
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"Hee that learnes a trade hath a purchase made."
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"Love makes all hard hearts gentle."
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"Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game."
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