Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
THOMAS MOREThere 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.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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