A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MORETo 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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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