To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
THOMAS MOREYea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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