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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.

Thomas More

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
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
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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Gold Substance Understand Value
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
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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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present

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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