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.
THOMAS MOREOne 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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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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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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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