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.
THOMAS MOREIt is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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