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.
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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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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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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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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