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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Thomas More

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
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
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
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
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
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

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

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