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.
THOMAS MOREThe heart that has truly loved never forgets.
More Thomas More Quotes
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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