The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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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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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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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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 is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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