The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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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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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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