Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MOREI die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
More Thomas More Quotes
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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