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.
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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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 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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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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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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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