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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Thomas More

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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Greatness Mindset Peace Wealth
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Law Myself Protection Reason
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
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
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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Home People Rain Remedy Skin Street
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
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
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
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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Goodness Man Writing
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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Destruction Evil Greed Justice
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet

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