To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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