A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
THOMAS MORENobody 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.
More Thomas More Quotes
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Friendship demands attention.
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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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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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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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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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