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I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford
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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.
Yunus Emre
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Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.
Charles Spurgeon
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The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.
W. S. Gilbert
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Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.
Susan Collins
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Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.
Matt Chandler
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Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.
James Howell
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
Olivier Sarkozy
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I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.
Stone Gossard
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Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.
Bill Ackman
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When you’re on the Lord’s errand, you’re entitled to the Lord’s blessings.
Thomas S. Monson
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It is impossible for us to fail when we do our best when we are on the Lord's errand.
M. Russell Ballard
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
Ezra Stiles
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I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.
Jock Sturges
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Not following her is the hardest thing I've ever done.
John Green
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Difficulties are just God's errands. If we are sent upon them, it is an evidence of His confidence. Therefore, let us be glad, be happy, for it is a way of being wise.
Ardeth Kapp
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And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.
Michael Crichton
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The blind quest for cash is a fool's errand.
Tim Ferriss
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Traveling is no fool's errand to him who carries his eyes and itinerary along with him.
Amos Bronson Alcott
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The strategy of buying what's in favor is a fool's errand, ensuring long-term underperformance. Only by standing against the prevailing winds - selectively, but resolutely - can an investor prosper over time. But for a while, a value investor typically underperforms.
Seth Klarman
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Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?
Charles Lamb
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.
Stevie Smith
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The way to elegancy of style is to employ your pen upon every errand; and the more trivial and dry it is, the more brains must be allowed for sauce.
Frances Osborne
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I've always shrunk from usurping the functions of Providence, and when I have to exercise them I decidedly prefer that it shouldn't be on an errand of destruction.
Edith Wharton
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I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.
Mark Twain
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Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.
[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]
George Herbert
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Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.
Kylie Tennant
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One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.
Diane Ackerman
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I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
Samuel Rutherford
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Of all the errands life seems to be running, of all the mysteries that enchant us, love is my favorite
Diane Ackerman
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It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.
Roger Caras
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The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
Rebecca Solnit
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Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
Henry Ward Beecher
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I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.
Melvin Van Peebles
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O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.
Bill O'Reilly