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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

Thomas More

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
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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Himself Man State Trust
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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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
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
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share

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