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.
THOMAS MORENo 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.
THOMAS MOREEverywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
THOMAS MOREAnd 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.
THOMAS MOREIt is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
THOMAS MORENo more like together than is chalke to coles.
THOMAS MORELawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MOREKindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
THOMAS MOREAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
THOMAS MOREAnyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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.
THOMAS MOREYour 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.
THOMAS MOREOne man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
THOMAS MORENobody 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.
THOMAS MOREFriendship demands attention.
THOMAS MOREOur emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MOREFor 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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