John Armstrong
John Armstrong
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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
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The situation is only getting worse. We started to notice it in July when imports really started to increase.
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They said times and troubles was gonna come. Well, it's here.
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I know I could get shot walking up and down these streets. But God goes everywhere with me.
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If there is no risk adjustment, one can imagine an unintended consequence where sick patients find more difficulty getting care.
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If from thy secret bed Of luxury unbidden offspring rise, Let them be kindly welcom'd to the day.
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Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little rent Than the dull monarch of a continent; Without this bounty which the gods bestow, Can Fortune make one favorite happy? No.
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He knows enough, the mariner, who knows Where lurk the shelves, and where the whirlpools boil, What signs portend the storm: to subtler minds He leaves to scan, from what mysterious cause Charybdis rages in the Ionian wave; Whence those impetuous currents in the main Which neither oar nor sail can stem; and why The roughening deep expects the storm, as sure As red Orion mounts the shrouded heaven.
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Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.
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Time shakes the stable tyranny of thrones, And tottering empires rush by their own weight.
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Money can purchase the symbols but not the causes of serenity and buoyancy. In a straightforward way we must agree that money cannot buy happiness.
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You don't ask a juggler which ball is highest in priority. Success is to do it all.
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We take great pride in our environmental stewardship and are addressing these issues as quickly as possible.