Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
THOMAS MOREAnd it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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