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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.

Thomas More

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 things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
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
Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Goodness Heart Kindness Men Nature Obligation Strong Word
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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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
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
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
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Moon Planet Religion Several Worship

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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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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