What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MORELaws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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