A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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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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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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