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He travels best that knows when to return.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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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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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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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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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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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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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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Most people know nothing about learning many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
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Two evils, greed and faction are the destruction of all justice.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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Friendship demands attention.
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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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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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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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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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Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men's hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.
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