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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
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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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For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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