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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us....
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for....
All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine....
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued....
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear....
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods....
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher....
The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him....
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophe...
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be....

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Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman....
If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family....
Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep....
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy....
That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?...
Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me....