It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
THOMAS MOREAs for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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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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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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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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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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