If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
THOMAS MOREEvery 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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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Friendship demands attention.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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