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.
THOMAS MOREA pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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Friendship demands attention.
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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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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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