Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MOREThey wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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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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