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Thomas More Quotes
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Date of Birth:
February 7, 1478
Date of Death:
July 6, 1535
Nationality:
English
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A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Thomas More

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

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

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.
Thomas More

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.
Thomas More

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas More

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.
Thomas More

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
Thomas More

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.
Thomas More

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
Thomas More

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.
Thomas More

He travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas More

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

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

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

If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
Thomas More

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

Oh! blame not the bard.
Thomas More

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

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Thomas More

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