Oh! blame not the bard.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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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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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Every 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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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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