A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
THOMAS MOREThe servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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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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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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