There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
THOMAS MOREFor men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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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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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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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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