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Fare well my dear child and pray for me, and I shall for you and all your friends that we may merrily meet in heaven.

last letter to his daughter Margaret Roper, 5 July 1535, on the eve of his execution

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Is not this house as nigh heaven as my own?

of the Tower of London

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Anyone who campaigns for public office becomes disqualified for holding any office at all.

Utopia (1516) bk. 2

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Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame, and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become so great devourers, and so wild, that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves.

Utopia (1516) bk. 1

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I never nursed a dear gazelle,

To glad me with its soft black eye,

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Oft, in the stilly night,

Ere Slumber’s chain has bound me,

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The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone,

In the ranks of death you’ll find him;

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’Tis the last rose of summer

Left blooming alone;

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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life

As love’s young dream.

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The harp that once through Tara’s halls

The soul of music shed,

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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.