Thomas More
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.
Thomas MoreA friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady.
Thomas MoreFamily life is full of major and minor crises - the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce - and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
Thomas MoreAn absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas MoreHe travels best that knows when to return.
Thomas MoreOur emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Thomas MoreFond memory brings the light of other days around me.
Thomas MoreEarth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Thomas MoreBecause the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
Thomas MoreBy 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 MoreAn enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfilment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.
Thomas MoreAnd 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 MoreI would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.
Thomas MoreI die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.
Thomas More'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
Thomas MoreAsk a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas MoreOh! blame not the bard.
Thomas MoreHere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas MoreThis wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
Thomas MoreOne of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.
Thomas MoreWhat though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas MoreThose 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.
Thomas MoreAnd, 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 MoreTo 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.
Thomas MoreWhen the destroyer comes, his first act will be to destroy all the books.
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