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.
THOMAS MOREFor 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich – for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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Howbeit, 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.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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