A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MOREAnd one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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