Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
THOMAS MOREHowbeit, 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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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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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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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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 one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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