A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
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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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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature’s lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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