The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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