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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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If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even at the risk of being heroes.
Thomas More
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
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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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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.
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And peradventure we have more cause to thank Him for our loss than for our winning; for His wisdom better seeth what is good for us than we do ourselves.
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We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.
Thomas More
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Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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In Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores full, no private man can want anything; for among them there is no unequal distribution, so that no man is poor, none in necessity; and though no man has anything, yet they are all rich; for what can make a man so rich as to lead a serene and cheerful life, free from anxieties.
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The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
Thomas More -
It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
Thomas More -
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake.
Thomas More
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
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Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
Thomas More
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An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
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Food is an implement of magic, and only the most coldhearted rationalist could squeeze the juices of life out of it and make it bland. In a true sense, a cookbook is the best source of psychological advice and the kitchen the first choice of room for a therapy of the world.
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
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Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
Thomas More