Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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