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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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God Life Love Possible
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
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
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
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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Flower Scent Shower Walk
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
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
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

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