A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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