The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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