If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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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 way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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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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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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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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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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