It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Friendship demands attention.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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