I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MOREWho does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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