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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

Thomas More

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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
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
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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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
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
For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
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
Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
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

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