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.
THOMAS MOREI would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It’s wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else’s enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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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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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.
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