Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
THOMAS MOREInstead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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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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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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