It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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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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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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Friendship demands attention.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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