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?
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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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’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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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