Sir Thomas More Quotes

• 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.

  Sir Thomas More

  Topics in Life, Nature

  Tags in Spiritual

• 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.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Fall

• 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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  Tags in concerning

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

  Sir Thomas More

  Topics in Money

• Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

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  Tags in Rules, Woman

• I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Reason, Law

• Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.

  Sir Thomas More

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Individuality

• He travels best that knows when to return.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Return

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

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Earth

• Oh! blame not the bard.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Blame

• Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

  Sir Thomas More

  Topics in Memory

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

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  Tags in Books

• 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.

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  Tags in People

• If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.

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  Tags in Honor

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

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Safe

• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Practice, Home

• The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Lies, Eyes

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  Sir Thomas More

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Different, Religions

• 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.

  Sir Thomas More

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  Tags in Wonder, Gold

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

  Sir Thomas More

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Brain

Sir Thomas More (49)

Birth:	7th February, 1478
Death:	6th July, 1535
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Lawyer, Philosopher, Writer

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