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Thomas More
February 7, 1478 - July 6, 1535
Nationality: English
Category: Author
Subcategory: English Author

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

   

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

   

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

   

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.

   

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

   

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

   

A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.

   

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

   

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

   

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

   

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

   

By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life.

   

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

   

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

   

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.

   

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.

   

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.

   

See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.

   

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

   

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

   

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