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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

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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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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
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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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
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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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

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