A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
- Thomas More Quote

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
- Thomas More Quote

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.
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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.
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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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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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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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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.
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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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Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.
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The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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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.
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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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.
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To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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