Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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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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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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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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Friendship demands attention.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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