Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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Friendship demands attention.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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