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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.

Thomas More

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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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
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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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
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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God Life Love Possible
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
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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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind

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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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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