And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
THOMAS MOREFriendship demands attention.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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There 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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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