A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MORENor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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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.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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