The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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