I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MORENobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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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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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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