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Letter "T" » Thomas More Quotes
«Family 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.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
family history, Histories, minor, The Downs
«Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
breeze, Delicious, jasmine, roams, timid
«I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
upheld, uphold, upholding, upholds
«Then awake! the heavens look bright, my dear; / 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear;/ And the best of all ways / To lengthen our days / Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
best of all, Days of Heaven, heavens, Late Night, lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, steal
«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.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
confronting, guiding, include, infinity, inviting, irreducible, mysteries, spiritual life, stretch
«No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream»
«Because 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.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
caring, concerns, deep-rooted, norm, norms, radical, turn out, well-turned
«She is far from the land where her young hero sleeps, / And lovers are round her, sighing:/ But coldly she turns from their gaze, and weeps, / For her heart in his grave is lying.»
«Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
emotional, individualities, individuality, sources, symptoms
«'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
blooming, companions, faded, lovely
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