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“A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.”

- Thomas More

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“A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.”

- Thomas More

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“An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.”

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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.”

- Thomas More

Source/Notes: Utopia: or the happy republic: A philosophical romance by Sir Thomas More, to which is added the New Atlantis by Lord Bacon. With a preliminary discourse, containing an analysis of Plato's Republic, by J. A. St. John (1845 edition)

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“And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.”

- Thomas More

Source/Notes: Utopia: On the Best State of a Republic and on the New Island of Utopia (2009 edition), The Floating Press - ISBN: 9781775412267

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“Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.”

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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.”

- Thomas More

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“Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.”

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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

Source/Notes: Sir Thomas More, the Utopia (1925 edition)

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“He travels best that knows when to return.”

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“Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

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“I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.”

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“I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.”

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“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”

- Thomas More

Source/Notes: Attributed in Lives That Made a Difference: An RSME Book for Schools (2011) by P. J. Clarke

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