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The Passions And Desires, Like The Two Twists Of A Rope, Mutually Mix One With The Other, And Twine Inextricably Round The Hea
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The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with
the other, and twine inextricably round the heart; producing good if moderately
indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate.
-- Burton
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A good idea is one which strikes the other fellow like a bolt of lightning a year or two after you've told it to him.
Everything, saith Epictetus, hath two handles,--the one to be held by, the other not.
-- Robert Burton (1577-1640) -- The Anatomy of Melancholy, Part ii, Sect. 2, Memb. 3...
Your heart's desires be with you! -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act i, Sc.
2...
Two farmers, each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on it's head and the other on the tail, the cow was milked by a lawyer.
The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between the power of the dollar and the power of the whip, ought to learn the difference on his own hide -- as, I think, he will.
Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction....
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire.
The other is to get it. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), "Man and Superma...
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A priest was walking along the cliffs at Dover when he came upon two locals pulling another man ashore on the end of a rope.
"That's what I like to see", said the priest, "A man helping his fellow man"....