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 MOREThe 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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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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