A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MOREAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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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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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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