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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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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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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
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The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.
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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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A good tale evil told were better untold, and an evil take well told need none other solicitor.
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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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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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It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
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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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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.
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Lord, give me a sense of humor so that I may take some happiness from this life and share it with others.
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