If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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