Thomas More (1478-1535) was a central figure of the English Renaissance. A lawyer, judge, and later Lord Chancellor of England, More was a respected intellectual and a close friend of Erasmus of Rotterdam. His most famous work, 'Utopia' (1516), coined the term and presented a critical view of European societies through the description of an imaginary island with a perfect political and social system. His unwavering Catholic faith put him at odds with King Henry VIII when the latter broke with the Roman Catholic Church. More's refusal to swear allegiance to the king as the supreme head of the Church of England led to his imprisonment and subsequent beheading on the Tower of London, and he was canonized by the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More.
Poems List
They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
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[ Drawing his beard aside before placing his head on the block :] This hath not offended the king.
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The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
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The only thing as challenging as getting tangled in the underbrush of relationship is trying to write about it.
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