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Thomas More Quotes
«Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you where would you hide, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast...and if you cut them down and you're just the man to do it do you really think you could stand upright in the winds which would blow then? Yes, I give the devil benefit of the law for my own safety sake.»
«Our purpose is to be the sword and shield for people of faith ... to defend and protect Christians and their religious beliefs in the public square.»
«The harp that once through Tara's halls / The soul of music shed, / Now hangs as mute as Tara's walls / As if that soul were fled.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
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harp, music hall, mute, shed, Tara
«The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, / In the ranks of death you'll find him; / His father's sword he has girded on, / And his wild harp slung behind him.»
Author: Thomas More
(Chancellor, Humanist, Statesman)
| Keywords:
girded, harp, ranks, slung, The Minstrel
«I never nursed a dear gazelle, / To glad me with its soft black eye, / But when it came to know me well, / And love me, it was sure to die!»
«When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew»