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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Thomas More

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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
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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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
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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God Life Love Possible
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
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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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
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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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness

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