The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
THOMAS MOREHowbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
More Thomas More Quotes
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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