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What is deferred is not avoided.

Thomas More

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
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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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
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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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
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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Himself Man State Trust
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
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
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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Gold Substance Understand Value
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
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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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
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
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
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
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
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
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety

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