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.
THOMAS MOREIt is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
More Thomas More Quotes
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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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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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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