The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
THOMAS MOREThe state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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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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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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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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