You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MOREIt is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Friendship demands attention.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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