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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More Thomas More Quotes
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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 times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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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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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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