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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

Thomas More

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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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
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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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
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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Education Flower Friendship Oneself Problem Small
Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
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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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight Manner Peace
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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership

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