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.
THOMAS MOREWhat though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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And 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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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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