Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
THOMAS MOREBy confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Howbeit, 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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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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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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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