You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MORELaws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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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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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Your 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.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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