Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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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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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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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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