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.
THOMAS MOREThey 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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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Friendship demands attention.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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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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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Because 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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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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