To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
THOMAS MORENor 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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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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