They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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