Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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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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