To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
THOMAS MOREBecause the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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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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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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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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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.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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