To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Who 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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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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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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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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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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