The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
THOMAS MOREFood is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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They 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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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