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.
THOMAS MOREThey 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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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