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.
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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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The 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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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