I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MOREA good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
More Thomas More Quotes
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By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.
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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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Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
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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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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
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