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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

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share
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
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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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
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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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
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
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
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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Better Build Change Love Person Story Strength Strong War
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
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
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Cole Togetherness
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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Flower Scent Shower Walk

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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