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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.
Thomas More
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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.
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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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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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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 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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Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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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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