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.
THOMAS MOREIt’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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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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Friendship demands attention.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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