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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.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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