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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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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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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