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.
THOMAS MORETake 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 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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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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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 heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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