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.
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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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