I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MOREEvery tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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 more like together than is chalke to coles.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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