A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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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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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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