The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
THOMAS MORENobody 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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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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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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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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