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 MOREEverywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
More Thomas More Quotes
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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