For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
THOMAS MOREThere are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Friendship demands attention.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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