Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
THOMAS MOREAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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