Friendship demands attention.
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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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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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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