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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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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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Creature Fear Live Yourself
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
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
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Distance Heaven Place
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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Moon Planet Religion Several Worship
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Law Profession
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight Manner Peace
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Close Each Other Religion Sex
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
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
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

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