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.
THOMAS MOREPride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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