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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More Thomas More Quotes
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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