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
people dumb despise
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
vanity people want
No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that you're better than people if you can display more superfluous property than they can.
people matter lawyer
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
rain people house
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 suffering firsts
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
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
eternity everyday fates individual life marriage married mysteries souls time timeless together weaving
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.
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.
ashes dead sea turn
Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, / But turn to ashes on the lips!
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.
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?
concerning differ governs supreme though whom
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.
bay channel enter great known pilots stranger
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.