What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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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 part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with 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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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The 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.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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