To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
THOMAS MOREFriendship demands attention.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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.
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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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