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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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