See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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