Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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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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They 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.
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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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Every tribulation which ever comes our way either is sent to be medicinal, if we will take it as such, or may become medicinal, if we will make it such, or is better than medicinal, unless we forsake it.
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And 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.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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