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.
THOMAS MOREThe 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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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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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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