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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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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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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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