I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MOREI die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first.
THOMAS MOREOh! blame not the bard.
THOMAS MOREThe heart that has truly loved never forgets.
THOMAS MOREInstead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
THOMAS MOREYour love has build me from strength to strength. It has made me a stronger and better person than I was. There is nothing that love cannot change darling. Once you fall in love, even wars turn to love stories.
THOMAS MOREAs for rosemary, I let it run all over my garden walls, not only because my bees love it but because it is the herb sacred to remembrance and to friendship, whence a sprig of it hath a dumb language.
THOMAS MORETo love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.
THOMAS MOREIt is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
THOMAS MORENor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.
THOMAS MOREA man taking basil from a woman will love her always.
THOMAS MOREThere 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.
THOMAS MORESee me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
THOMAS MOREFor 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 MOREThe servant may not look to be in better case than his master.
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 MOREThe Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
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