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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More Thomas More Quotes
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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I’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
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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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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
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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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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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