It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
THOMAS MOREEvery 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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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