The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
THOMAS MOREThe Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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.
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