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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.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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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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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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. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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As for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of 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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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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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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