It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
THOMAS MORENo 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 more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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