What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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There 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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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