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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.

Thomas More

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Hard Learning People
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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God Life Love Possible
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
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
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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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
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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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
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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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
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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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
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
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind

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