It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
THOMAS MORETo 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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Friendship demands attention.
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