"Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then again fade away and are dead."
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"Never to be cast away are the gifts of the gods, magnificent, which they give of their own will, no man could have them for wanting them."
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"The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time."
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"'T is fortune gives us birth, But Jove alone endues the soul with worth."
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"The Lord gives and the Lord takes away, as it pleases him, for he can do all things."
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"So it is that the gods do not give all men gifts of grace - neither good looks nor intelligence nor eloquence."
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"I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun."
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"Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future."
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"True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
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"I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear."
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"How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it."
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"Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song."
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"World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one."
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"When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid."
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"Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music."
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"If I give you two children films then come back and give you an adult film. I just love mixing it up and not being pegged into one specific thing."
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"As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him."
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"It is impossible for one man both to labor day and night to get a living, and at the same time give himself to the study of sacred learning as the preaching office requires."
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"When I go see a performer, I don't go to criticize. I just go to be entertained. I don't go to give advice; I just go to enjoy."
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"Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves."
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