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.
THOMAS MOREIt is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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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It 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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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