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.
THOMAS MORESex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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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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