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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

Thomas More

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
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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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
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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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
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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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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God Life Love Possible
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
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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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War

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