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.
THOMAS MOREA man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
More Thomas More Quotes
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want – or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you’re better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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You wouldn’t abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn’t control the winds.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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