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

Thomas More

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
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Age Leave Love Rose Wine Youth
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Government Law Leadership
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Campaign Hold Office
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
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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Esteem Gold Value Wonder
Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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Comfort Gentle Human
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
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Grace Hard Work Prayer
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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Change Circumstance Creation Hope Lose Present
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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God Life Love Possible
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Honor Profit

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

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