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?
THOMAS MOREIf the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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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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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’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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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