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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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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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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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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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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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