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.
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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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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