Thomas More Quotes
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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 possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'
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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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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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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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