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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

Thomas More

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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Acceptance Challenge Life Modern Personal Social Soul
I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Death Faith God Myself
Friendship demands attention.
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Attention Demand Friendship
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Avoid Man Medicine Wisdom
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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Capability Compassion Creature Feeling Human Nature
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Happiness Live Possible
The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Better Master Servant
Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Bright Fortune Happiness Pride Shine Thinking
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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Bribe Gift Man Reason Rich Wisdom
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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Friendship Garden Language Love Remember Run
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Character Enough Face Himself Hold Man
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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Aware Control Direction Man Myself Strength
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Life Mystery Nature Spiritual Vision
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.
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Goodness Man Writing
Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Education Flower Friendship Oneself Problem Small

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