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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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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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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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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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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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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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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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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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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