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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.

Thomas More

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
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
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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Medicine Ourselves Way
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
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
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Herself Love Man Willing Woman
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
What is deferred is not avoided.
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Avoid One Liner
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety

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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