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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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On his mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: 'I pray you, Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.' To the executioner: 'Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thyne office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thyne honesty.'
Thomas More
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I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
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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.
Thomas More -
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.
Thomas More -
The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.
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Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
Thomas More
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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.
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No more like together than is chalke to coles.
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Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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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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Friendship demands attention.
Thomas More
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The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.
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It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.
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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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To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
Thomas More -
It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
Thomas More