An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
THOMAS MOREOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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