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?
THOMAS MOREYou wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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