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.
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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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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