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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.

Thomas More

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
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
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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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
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
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
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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
The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Himself Man State Trust

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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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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