Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MOREIt is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of 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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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 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.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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