A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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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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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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