They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
THOMAS MOREOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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