What is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MORENobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
More Thomas More Quotes
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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