What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MOREFood 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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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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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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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