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
law giving safety
I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake
spiritual soul vision
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.
people dumb despise
Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.
writing men dust
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble; and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
fear men use
Those among them that have not received our religion do not fright any from it, and use none ill that goes over to it, so that all the while I was there one man was only punished on this occasion.
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.
change fall disease
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.
safe i-can
See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
faith death kings
I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
government law leader
Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power.
light planets filled
And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.
men names rich
Everywhere do I percieve a certain conspiracy of rich men seeking their own advantage underthat name and pretext of commonwealth.
flower problem educated
Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
doctors giving disease
It's a poor doctor who can't cure one disease without giving you another.