The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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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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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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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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