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.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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 heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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 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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