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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of 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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The folly of men has enhanced the value of gold and silver because of their scarcity whereas, on the contrary, it is their opinion that Nature, as an indulgent parent, has freely given us all the best things in great abundance, such as water and earth, but has laid up and hid from us the things that are vain and useless.
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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.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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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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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets.
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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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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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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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