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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

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Thomas More
Age: 57 †
Born: 1478
Born: February 7
Died: 1535
Died: July 6
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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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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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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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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