It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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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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The 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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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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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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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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