You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
THOMAS MOREEverywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
More Thomas More Quotes
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The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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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 a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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The state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
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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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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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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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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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