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What is deferred is not avoided.

Thomas More

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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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
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
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
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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
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
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
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
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
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
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner

What is deferred is not avoided.

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