Friendship demands attention.
THOMAS MOREAn absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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 naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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