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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.

Thomas More

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
And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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Loss Ourselves Reason Thankful Win
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
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Death Heaven Journey
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
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Follow Light Literature Nature Planet
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Love Myself
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Emotional Life Ourselves Source Symptom
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Gold Silver Use
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Enemy Goodness Mindset Oneself Thinking
You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Abandon Control Storm Wind
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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Business Chance Life Nature Ourselves
I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Benefit Devil Law Myself Safety
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
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
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

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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