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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.

Thomas More

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
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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Medicine Ourselves Way
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
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
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety

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