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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.

Thomas More

The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
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Carry Force Goodness Greatness Influence Power Wisdom
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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Creature Fear Live Yourself
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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Better Death Preserve Punishment Steal Thief
One 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.
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Deep Live Man Perspective Pleasure Wealth
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
It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Himself Love Man Natural Thinking
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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Himself Man State Trust
If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Himself Lion Man Rule Strength
To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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God Life Love Possible
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
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Myself Safety
A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Drowning Man One Liner
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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Delight Manner Peace
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
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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Death Horrible Punishment Thief
Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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Happiness Humor Life Share

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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