You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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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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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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