Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.
THOMAS MORELaws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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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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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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