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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.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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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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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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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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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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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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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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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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What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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