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.
THOMAS MOREYour 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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Every 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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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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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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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