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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.

Thomas More

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place

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