Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
More Thomas More Quotes
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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