And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
THOMAS MOREPride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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 is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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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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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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