He travels best that knows when to return.
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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Friendship demands attention.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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.
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