Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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