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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Hands Marriage Oneself
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
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
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
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
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
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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God Life Love Possible
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

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

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