The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Instead 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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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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