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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Flower Scent Shower Walk
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Act Enjoyment Humanity Oneself Pleasure Wrong
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey

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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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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