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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.


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THOMAS MORE Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal
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THOMAS MORE A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
THOMAS MORE What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
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THOMAS MORE The way to Heaven out of all places is of like length and distance
THOMAS MORE The devil - the prowde spirit - cannot endure to be mocked
THOMAS MORE The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
THOMAS MORE Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, / Where cold and unhonoured his relics are laid...
THOMAS MORE Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day.
THOMAS MORE Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all d...
THOMAS MORE By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, natu...
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THOMAS MORE . . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell...
THOMAS MORE I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
THOMAS MORE Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
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THOMAS MORE An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagina...
THOMAS MORE An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
THOMAS MORE The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing
THOMAS MORE Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still
THOMAS MORE To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have b...
THOMAS MORE Friendship demands attention.
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THOMAS MORE Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become...
THOMAS MORE 'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
THOMAS MORE The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without ...
THOMAS MORE The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the ...
THOMAS MORE I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me w...
THOMAS MORE Oh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MORE Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, / But the trail of the serpent is over them all!
THOMAS MORE Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power
THOMAS MORE Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
THOMAS MORE The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion an...
THOMAS MORE No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.
THOMAS MORE Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide every...
THOMAS MORE For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet ca...
THOMAS MORE "Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour...
THOMAS MORE They have no lawyers among them for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to...
THOMAS MORE This case is about free inquiry in education, not about a religious agenda,
THOMAS MORE I was really happy with the way the kids played tonight, ... We executed our doubles strategy perfec...
THOMAS MORE Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
THOMAS MORE My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me
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THOMAS MORE Bill Dotson holds a special place in my life,
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THOMAS MORE A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon.
THOMAS MORE The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's wall...
THOMAS MORE Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot
THOMAS MORE Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
THOMAS MORE There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
THOMAS MORE No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream
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THOMAS MORE The devil…the prowde spirite…cannot endure to be mocked.
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THOMAS MORE Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.
THOMAS MORE Lawyers -- a profession it is to disguise matters.
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SIR THOMAS MORE They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
SIR THOMAS MORE For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the ...
SIR THOMAS MORE A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
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SIR THOMAS MORE This hath not offended the king.
SIR THOMAS MORE Why dost thou gaze upon the sky?
O that I were yon spangled sphere!
Then every star should b...
SIR THOMAS MORE Nay, tempt me not to love again:
There was a time when love was sweet;
Dear Nea! had I known...
SIR THOMAS MORE Then on the grounde Togyder rounde With manye a sadde stroke, They roll and rumble, ...
SIR THOMAS MORE And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you wi...
SIR THOMAS MORE Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.
SIR THOMAS MORE Whosoever loveth me loveth my hound.
SIR THOMAS MORE Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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HANNAH MORE The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of ...
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HANNAH MORE There is one single fact which we may oppose to all the wit and argument of infidelity, namely, that...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the health...
HANNAH MORE Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
HANNAH MORE Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
HANNAH MORE No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who...
HANNAH MORE Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more cert...
HANNAH MORE How goodness heightens beauty!
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE Depart from discretion when it interferes with duty.
HANNAH MORE Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.
HANNAH MORE In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.
HANNAH MORE Sow an action, reap a habit.
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
HANNAH MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE I am the reassurance that they have not changed. In an upside down world, with all the rules being r...
KENNETH MORE Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.
HENRY MORE A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To bear the miseries of a people...
HANNAH MORE Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam o...
HANNAH MORE It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate wh...
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help t...
HANNAH MORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MORE One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...
HANNAH MORE Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their s...
HANNAH MORE He liked those literary cooks Who skim the cream of others' books; And ruin half an author's g...
HANNAH MORE Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Sinc...
HANNAH MORE If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow...
HANNAH MORE In an upside down world, with all the rules being rewritten as the game goes on and spectators invad...
KENNETH MORE In Pakistan, it was a stop-gap arrangement. Here we would definitely go with a specialist opener.
KIRAN MORE First Thought is one of the gem of garland of Success... Don't lose it.... Whenever a thought strike...
RAJESH MORE Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.
HANNAH MORE Your eight is someone's infinity.
NITYA MORE Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatre...
HANNAH MORE Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?
HANNAH MORE He seemed evidently more fond of controversy than of truth, and the whole turn of his conversation i...
HANNAH MORE Small habits, well pursued betimes,
May reach the dignity of crimes (Florio)
HANNAH MORE Goals help you overcome short-term problems.
HANNAH MORE He certainly cut a swatch. He never drove anything but a fabulous convertible.
GARY MORE He was going to work on bridges in college and he decided that he really loved to draw and he got ve...
GARY MORE We never thought it was a curse of Shaquille O'Neal. It's hard to get to Austin, people don't realiz...
HERB MORE There was a long discussion on middle order batting and we thought that this is the best team we can...
KIRAN MORE He has done well in domestic cricket and has experience as well.
KIRAN MORE He has done very well in domestic cricket and his experience will be crucial in Pakistan.
KIRAN MORE He was always in the scheme of things and we had only been trying others against Sri Lanka, which is...
KIRAN MORE He has gone to Australia for treatment.
KIRAN MORE Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decid...
KIRAN MORE He is playing. He has been cleared by his doctor.
KIRAN MORE Our middle-order is very strong. We have some concerns only with the opening slot.
KIRAN MORE We have some plans for the team, you don't need to know everything about it.
KIRAN MORE In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, nev...
PAUL ELMER MORE Hail, guest, we ask not what thou art; If friend, we greet thee, hand and heart; If stranger, ...
PAUL ELMER MORE Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 We are born knowing nothing and with much stri...
PAUL ELMER MORE We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are b...
PAUL ELMER MORE WhatEver May Be The Problems, Dont Be Afraid, Think That They Are The Questions Infront Of You As An...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE To become a millionaire you must become a Lion, you can't even spell millionaire without the word Li...
P. P. GURUMAULI ANNA SAHEB MORE When you look at death, it makes you understand the importance of the moment when you have life and ...
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THOMAS LYNCH Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
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THOMAS HOBBES Love and a red rose can't be hid.
THOMAS HOLCROFT Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the populatio...
THOMAS SOWELL One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonor...
THOMAS SOWELL The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't t...
THOMAS SOWELL Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of ...
THOMAS SOWELL The word 'racism' is like ketchup. It can be put on practically anything - and demanding evi...
THOMAS SOWELL That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
THOMAS PAINE The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.
THOMAS PAINE I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, lovi...
THOMAS PAINE Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting ...
THOMAS PAINE An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
THOMAS PAINE These are the times that try men's souls.
THOMAS PAINE What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value...
THOMAS PAINE Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
THOMAS PAINE There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is ...
THOMAS HOBBES No man's error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
THOMAS HOBBES Not believing in force is the same as not believing in gravitation.
THOMAS HOBBES Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.
THOMAS HOBBES Words are the money of fools.
THOMAS HOBBES I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after pow...
THOMAS HOBBES Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them w...
THOMAS AQUINAS God should not be called an individual substance, since the principal of individuation is matter.
THOMAS AQUINAS How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
THOMAS AQUINAS If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the...
THOMAS AQUINAS It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall l...
THOMAS AQUINAS The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of...
THOMAS AQUINAS Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the pers...
THOMAS AQUINAS Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
THOMAS AQUINAS The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
THOMAS PAINE An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.
THOMAS JEFFERSON If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a...
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