If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
THOMAS MOREIf honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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