The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MOREThe 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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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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