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In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed.
Utopia (1516)
I die the king's faithful servant, and God's first.
I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith, I long not to live.
This vice [Pride] does not measure happiness so much by its own conveniences, as by the miseries of others.
Utopia (1516)
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.
Advising an author to put his MS. into rhyme. Reported in Hoyt's (1922)
Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.
If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Lives That Made a Difference: An RSME Book for Schools (2011)
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.
Utopia (1516)
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.
Utopia (1516)
The island of Utopia is in the middle two hundred miles broad, and holds almost at the same breadth over a great part of it, but it grows narrower towards both ends.
Utopia (1516)
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.
Richard III and His Miserable End (1543)
The Prince himself has no distinction, either of garments, or of a crown; but is only distinguished by a sheaf of corn carried before him; as the high priest is also known by his being preceded by a person carrying a wax light.
Utopia (1516)
Here were we fallen in a greate question of ye lawe whyther ye grey mare may be the better horse or not.
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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.
Utopia (1516)
The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labour for. Amen.
For men use, if they have an evil tourne, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good tourne we will write it in duste.
This hath not offended the king.