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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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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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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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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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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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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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