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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.

  Thomas More

  Loss, Winning, Causes

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• Howbeit, this one thing, son, I assure you on my faith, that if the parties will at hands call for justice, then, all were it my father stood on the one side, and the devil on the other, his cause being good, the devil should have right.

  Thomas More

  Wisdom, Father, Party

  In William Roper 'The Life of Sir Thomas More'

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• It is naturally given to all men to esteem their own inventions best.

  Thomas More

  Men, Vanity, Invention

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.29, Wordsworth Editions

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• The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

  Thomas More

  Looks, May, Masters

  Niccolo Machiavelli, Sir Thomas More, Sir (2010). “Machiavelli, More & Luther”, p.105, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in a method how to live, and so be preserved from the fatal necessity of stealing and of dying for it.

  Thomas More

  Men, Dying, Thieves

  Thomas More (2013). “Utopia”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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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.

  Thomas More

  Art, War, Crooks

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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• For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.

  Thomas More

  Writing, Men, Dust

  Thomas More (2005). “The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition”, p.67, Indiana University Press

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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.

  Thomas More

  Running, Wall, Garden

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• To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

  Thomas More

  Gold, Use, May

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.80, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.

  Thomas More

  Poetry, Reason, Rhyme

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 602-605), 1922.

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• Oh! blame not the bard.

  Thomas More

  Blame, Bards

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• No more like together than is chalke to coles.

  Thomas More

  Together, Comparison

  "Works", (p. 674) in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 125-127), 1922.

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• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  Thomas More

  Moon, Islands, Different

  Thomas More, Sir Saint (2008). “Utopia: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.152, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

  Thomas More

  Men, Justice, Diversity

  Thomas More (2010). “Utopia”, p.74, Bibliolis Books

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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.

  Thomas More

  Rain, People, House

  Thomas More (1997). “Utopia”, p.53, Wordsworth Editions

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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.

  Thomas More

  Fear, Men, Use

  Thomas More (1737). “Utopia”, p.119

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• And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights,
  Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

  Thomas More

  Light, Planets, Filled

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• . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear.

  Thomas More

  Men, Might, States

  Saint Thomas More (2005). “The History of King Richard III”, Hesperus Press

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