Thomas More
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1478
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'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
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Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone
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You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
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Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
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Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
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There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
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Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
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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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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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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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A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
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Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot
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She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, / For her heart in his grave is lying.