The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
THOMAS MOREIt’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
More Thomas More Quotes
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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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Friendship demands attention.
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A man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
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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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They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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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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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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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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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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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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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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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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