Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
THOMAS MOREWhat part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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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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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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