Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
THOMAS MOREThere are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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