English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)
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He wrote the book that gave us "utopia" — then lost his head for refusing to bend when his king broke with Rome.
Thomas More was born 7 February 1478 in England and rose through law to become Lord Chancellor under Henry VIII in October 1529. He published Utopia in 1516, imagining an island republic that became a lasting thought experiment. A committed Catholic humanist, he directed polemics against Luther, Zwingli, and Tyndale during the Reformation's early battles. When Henry VIII split from Rome and demanded an oath recognizing him as supreme head of the Church of England, More refused — he would not accept the annulment of Catherine of Aragon or the break itself. Convicted of treason on what he called…
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And when the devil hath seen that they have set so little by him, after certain essays, made in such times as he thought most fitting, he hath given that temptation quite over.
Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife.
Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust.
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere.
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