What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MORESex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
More Thomas More Quotes
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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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 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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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