It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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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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It’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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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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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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