The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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