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.
THOMAS MOREFor 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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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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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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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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