It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
THOMAS MOREBy confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
More Thomas More Quotes
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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