It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
THOMAS MOREAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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 heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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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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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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