Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
THOMAS MOREEvery 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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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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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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