The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MOREFor 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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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