And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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 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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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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