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.
THOMAS MOREWhoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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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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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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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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