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.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
More Thomas More Quotes
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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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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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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