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

Thomas More

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
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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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
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
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Forget Heart Love True
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature

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