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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.
Oh! blame not the bard.
Friendship demands attention.
What is deferred is not avoided.
Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
He travels best that knows when to return.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
No more like together than is chalke to coles.
Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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.
By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
