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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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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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Concern Garden Greatness Happiness Himself Store
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
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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Education Flower Friendship Oneself Problem Small
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
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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Complication Fall Oneself Removal
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Evil Goodness Need
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Cure Doctor Poor Yourself
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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Advice Food Life Magic Therapy True World
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
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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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
He travels best that knows when to return.
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Himself Return Travel
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Advantage Men Myself Name Rich Seek
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Best Invention Man Natural
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Bad Goodness Live Man Time
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Delight Manner Peace
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Education Greatness Ourselves Problem School Time
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
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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Disguise Lawyer People Profession
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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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Ideas Man Oneself Rare
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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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Law Man Nature Necessary Portion Substance Waste
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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