If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
THOMAS MOREIt’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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