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Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation.

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The chief aim of their constitution is that, whenever public needs permit, all citizens should be free, so far as possible, to withdraw their time and energy from the service of the body, and devote themselves to the freedom and culture of the mind. For that, they think, is the real happiness of life.

Energy, Real, Think, Thinking, Time, Whenever

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Gold, Lack, May, Use

Nobody owns anything but everyone is rich - for what greater wealth can there be than cheerfulness, peace of mind, and freedom from anxiety?

Anxiety, Mind, Peace, Rich, Wealth

Take something from yourself, to give to another, that is humane and gentle and never takes away as much comfort as it brings again.

Away, Comfort, Give, Giving, Helping Others

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.

Caring, Contrary, Roots, Running, Turn, Values

Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.

Law, Men, Necessary, Portion, Rights, Subsistence

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.

Life, Opens, Path, Soul, Spiritual, Vision

Nor 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.

Gold, Important, Substance, Useless, Value

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Diversity, Esteemed, Justice, Men, Thing, Thought

A drowning man will clutch at a straw.

Clutch, Drowning, Hope, Men, Straw

And one wild Shakespeare, following Nature's lights, Is worth whole planets, filled with Stagyrites.

Filled, Light, Lights, Planets, Shakespeare, Worth

Most people know nothing about learning; many despise it. Dummies reject as too hard whatever is not dumb.

Despise, Dumb, Dummies, Learning, People, Reject

The things we pray for, good Lord, give us grace to labor for.

Encouragement, Give, Giving, Good, Grace, Things

In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

Art, Crook, Crooks, Good, War

Who does more earnestly long for a change than he who is uneasy in his present circumstances? And who run to create confusions with so desperate a boldness as those who have nothing to lose, hope to gain by them?

Change, Create, Hope, Long, Nothing, Running

It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.

Avoid, Medicine, Part, Sickness, Wise, Wish

I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

Inspirational, Law, Protect, Reason

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

Chalke, Coles, Comparison, Like, Together

I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake

Benefit, Give, Giving, Law, Safety, Sake

Those 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.

Among, Fear, Men, Occasion, Punished, Use

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