It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
THOMAS MOREWho 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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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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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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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