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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child.' - 1 Corinthians 13:11 'The children of perdition are oft'times made instruments even of the greatest work.' - Ben Jonson, 1637-1673
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It was family, blood, kin. It was what made the world go round and people strive to better themselves. At the end of the day, family was all you had.
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You can do more with a soft voice than a big stick?
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Every night and every morn Some to misery are born. William Blake, 1757-1827, 'Auguries of Innocence
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Listen, life is short, even at its longest, it's short.
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The East End had a saying: 'If you get a capture, hold your hand up.
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because she was the best thing that ever happened to any of us; she kept us together, and she made sure we were a family. Now all we have left is each other.' Christy looked at them all and said quietly, 'Amen to that.
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He who brings trouble to his family will inherit only wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise Proverbs 11:29
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Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10
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use what you've got. Always find a use for what you've got. Never promise what you can't deliver, and always do a deal with a smile and a friendly word if possible. That advice had served him in good stead all his working life.
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The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble Proverbs 15:6
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missed her mother and her sister so badly it was a constant pain inside of her.
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Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap Galatians 6:7 For the wages of sin is death Romans 6:23
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God be merciful to me a sinner. Luke 18:13
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Long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light Paradise Lost (1667) John Milton, 1608-74 For the love of money is the root of all evil 1 Timothy 6:10
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My sister and my sister's child, Myself and children three.' - William Cowper, 1731-1800 With affection beaming in one eye and calculation shining out of the other. - Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens, 1812-1870
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Children were unlucky really. They were born without any say in things whatsoever. It was a lottery for them in some respects, what kind of mother they would acquire once out of the warmth of a snug and comfortable womb. A loving caring individual who would rush to fulfil their every whim? Or a selfish one who resented their intrusion into her otherwise orderly life? Children were a shock to the system for most women. The idea of a baby was..
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Why did you have to lose something before you could fully appreciate it?
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It was a pleasure when a person remembered that good manners cost fuck-all, and it went a long way.
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Quem Jupiter vult perdere, dementat prius. Whom God would destroy, He first sends mad. Homeri Gnomologia James Duport, 1606-1679
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Deep in my soul that tender secret dwells, Lonely and lost to light for evermore, Save when to thine my heart responsive swells, Then trembles into silence as before. 'The Corsair', Lord Byron (1788-1824)
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The dole was supposed to tide you over till you got a fucking job. It was never meant to be your fucking main earn.
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Oscar Wilde said that youth was wasted on the young, and he was right. When you were young you wasted not only your own life, but usually someone else's as well.
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Michael Flynn was so angry he was almost spitting his words down the phone. Over six feet tall and with a heavy build he was a big man and, as everyone in the room knew, he was more than capable of great violence. He was paying them for their expertise, which they currently seemed to be lacking in. In fact, they were irritating the arse off him with their stupidity.
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beauty could be a scourge, and to remember that looks faded eventually, but the beauty inside her was for ever. She had liked hearing that. It had the ring of truth to it.
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Tardiness was the greatest insult of them all; arrangements were made to suit those concerned - it was the height of rudeness to overlook other people's needs.
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Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.' William Blake (1757-1827)
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Great is truth and it prevails. 3 Esdras 4.41
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You lost the plot again, where you are now ain't clear, It's a misty morning memory, the road that took you here Alabama 3, 'You Don't Dance To Techno Anymore' Album: Exile on Coldharbour Lane, 1997
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After all, they were brothers, bonded by blood, and nothing would ever change that.
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No time like the present' Mrs Manley (The Lost Lover, 1696), 1663-1724 'From marrying in haste, and repenting at leisure; Not liking the person, yet liking his treasure.' Elizabeth Thomas, 1675-1731 'What's done cannot be undone.' William Shakespeare (Macbeth, 1606), 1564-1616
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see that a mother's love, a real mother's love, is probably the most important thing a child can have in its life. It means more than money, more than anything.
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Take care and God bless, Martina x
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I hope to meet many of you at my signings, and I look forward to saying hello to you all. Take care and God bless, Martina x
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Hindsight really is a fucking wonderful thing.
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You make people into what you want them to be and, then, when they break your heart, you have to find the strength to carry on.
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There was an old Irish saying of my nana's - she always said you get the life you deserve. I hope against hope that there was no truth in that. But only time will tell.
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She shakes the blues off then she tries her luck Makes a little bet, hopes her horse comes up Pickin' pockets for some easy money 'Cause she blew the goddamn lot on the National Lottery Alabama 3, 'Mansion On The Hill' Album: La Peste, 2000
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We all have to live by our own lights, love, do what we can.
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Youth, as Oscar Wilde had once said, was wasted on the young!
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A man's foes shall be they of his own household. Matthew 10:36
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Without a second thought, without anything except their own need to give.
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People only know what you tell them, child. Remember that all your life. Only tell your secrets to people you know will keep them just what they are. Who will keep them as they were meant to be. Kept. Secret.
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There is power in the blood, justice in the sword When that call it comes, I will be ready for war Alabama 3, 'Power In The Blood' Album: Power in the Blood, 2002
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