Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
THOMAS MORENo more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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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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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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