An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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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.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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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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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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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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