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.
THOMAS MOREThe times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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