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.
THOMAS MORETake something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
More Thomas More Quotes
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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