Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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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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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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