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

Thomas More

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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Flower Scent Shower Walk
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Best Play Yourself
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
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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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
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
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
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
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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God Life Love Possible
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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Goodness Man Writing
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking

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