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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.

Thomas More

Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Devil Faith Goodness Hands Oneself Right Thing
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
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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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
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
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
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
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
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
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself

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