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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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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
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
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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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight Manner Peace
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Devil Faith Goodness Hands Oneself Right Thing
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
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
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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Gold Substance Understand Value
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
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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Comfort Gentle Human
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
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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Medicine Ourselves Way
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

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