You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MOREThey 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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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