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• God considered not action, but the spirit of the action.
  It is the intention, not the deed, wherein the merit of praise of the doer consists....
• A wish is a desire without an attempt.
• If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. -- Oriental Proverb
• Private enterprise ... makes OK private action which would be considered dishonest in public action.
  -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)...
• TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity
  but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr....
• If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
  -- Saint Augustine...
• WISH Futile optimistic desire for something. -- Daniel Bowen's TOXIC CUSTARPEDIA
• Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. -- Julius Caesa
• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a thousand books.
  -- Edward Abbey...