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.
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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For 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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Nobody 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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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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