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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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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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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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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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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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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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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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