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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.

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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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Evil Goodness Need
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
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
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
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
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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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Advantage Men Myself Name Rich Seek
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
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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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
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
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
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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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
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
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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Devil Faith Goodness Hands Oneself Right Thing
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
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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Flower Scent Shower Walk
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex

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