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...
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Date of Birth7 February 1478
black came dear glad love soft sure
I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me well, / And love me, it was sure to die!
far grave heart hero land lovers round turns
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.
close heart loved loves truly
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close
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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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To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
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Your love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
flower wine age-love
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
best days few heavens hours late steal ways
Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!
dreams half life sweet
There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams
cut great law road
Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?
hang roses round scent shatter
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, / But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
engaged events exposed human life
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
great hear meek men small swallow tame
Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.