If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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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.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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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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