He travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MOREIt’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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect 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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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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