If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Friendship demands attention.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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