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.
THOMAS MOREYea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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The 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.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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