See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MOREKindness 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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