For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
THOMAS MOREThere 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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