Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
THOMAS MOREOccupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
THOMAS MOREIf honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
THOMAS MOREIt’s a poor doctor who can’t cure one disease without giving you another.
THOMAS MORERose! 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 MORESee me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MOREWhoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
THOMAS MOREThe servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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.
THOMAS MOREMost people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
THOMAS MOREI’d give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety’s sake.
THOMAS MORETwo evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
THOMAS MOREIt is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
THOMAS MOREOh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MOREWhat is deferred is not avoided.
THOMAS MOREA pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
THOMAS MOREInstead 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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