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.
THOMAS MOREThe way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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