I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MOREFor 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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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.
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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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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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