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.
THOMAS MOREThe 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.
THOMAS MOREThe servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
THOMAS MOREAnyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
THOMAS MORETo gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
THOMAS MOREWe cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
THOMAS MOREHe travels best that knows when to return.
THOMAS MOREPride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
THOMAS MOREThe things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
THOMAS MORERose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
THOMAS MOREIt is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
THOMAS MOREA drowning man will clutch at a straw.
THOMAS MOREFood 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.
THOMAS MORETwo evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
THOMAS MOREIt’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.
THOMAS MOREGetting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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