Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
THOMAS MOREThe increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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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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