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.
THOMAS MOREAnyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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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.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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