Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
THOMAS MOREIt’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
More Thomas More Quotes
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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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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