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.
THOMAS MOREHe travels best that knows when to return.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Friendship demands attention.
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