If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MOREBy 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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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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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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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Friendship demands attention.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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