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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Thomas More

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
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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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
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
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
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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God Life Love Possible
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
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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Delight Manner Peace
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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Creature Fear Live Yourself
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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