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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

Thomas More

You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
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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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
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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Moon Planet Religion Several Worship
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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Goodness Man Writing
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Advantage Men Myself Name Rich Seek
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
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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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.

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