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Best Quotes by Thomas More (Top 10)
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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
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Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?
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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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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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One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
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More Thomas More Quotes
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
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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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The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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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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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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Education is not the piling on of learning information data facts skills or abilities that's training or instruction but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed
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Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
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