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
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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.
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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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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!
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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.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine
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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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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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Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
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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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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?