If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MOREThe Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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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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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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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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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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