It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
THOMAS MOREYea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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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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