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.
THOMAS MOREYea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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