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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.

Thomas More

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Advantage Men Myself Name Rich Seek
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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Myself Occasion Punishment Religion
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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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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Medicine Ourselves Way
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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Marriage Reason Rhyme
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need

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