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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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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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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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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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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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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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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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