To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
THOMAS MOREAnyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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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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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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