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
One man to live in pleasure and wealth, whiles all other weap and smart for it, that is the part not of a king, but of a jailor.
wealth class royalty
What is deferred is not avoided.
procrastination
What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.
carpe-diem accomplishment
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.
people
vision life infinity nature
A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
money
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.
force life wisdom power
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
simplicity home
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
man
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.
man religion
A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
friendship
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.
religion
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.
language
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.
wonder wonders men
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.
men
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