Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MOREOur emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
THOMAS MOREThey set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
THOMAS MOREThe 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.
THOMAS MOREAnd 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.
THOMAS MOREI 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.
THOMAS MOREOh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MOREOccupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
THOMAS MOREWhat part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
THOMAS MOREBecause 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.
THOMAS MOREThere 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.
THOMAS MOREFriendship demands attention.
THOMAS MOREWhat is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MOREYou wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MORESee me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MOREI die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MORELord, 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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