Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MOREThe way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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