Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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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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