The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MOREIt is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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