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

Thomas More

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
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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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
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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Medicine Ourselves Way
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
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
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
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
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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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Goodness Man Writing
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
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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Flower Scent Shower Walk
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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Gold Substance Understand Value
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex

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