The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MOREA drowning man will clutch at a straw.
More Thomas More Quotes
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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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I 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.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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