Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
THOMAS MOREKindness 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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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 naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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The 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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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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