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.
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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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