Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
THOMAS MORETwo evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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