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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

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.

— Roger Miller

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

— Jean Paul

When I was a kid, being outside was the norm. Rain or shine, our parents would tell us to get out of the house.

— David Suzuki

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

— Mary Todd Lincoln

Some people are making such thorough preparation for rainy days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.

— William Feather

If you're in California, and it's raining, stay home because nobody can drive in the rain. It's like it's raining frogs. They're terrified.

— Adam Ferrara

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

— Bai Ling

Human knowledge has been changing from the word 'go,' and people, in certain respects, behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

— Herbert A. Simon

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

— Saint Ambrose

Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.

— Saint Basil

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