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Thomas More

Born

in London, England

December 15, 1477

Died

May 07, 1535

Genre

Philosophy, Religion

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Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was a councillor to Henry VIII and also served as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532.

More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. He also wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary ideal island nation. More opposed the King's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted ...more

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	Utopia 3.54 avg rating — 77,100 ratings — published 1516 — 2947 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia / New Atlantis / The Isle of Pines by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Henry Neville 3.39 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 1999 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utopia with Erasmus's The Sileni of Alcibiades by Thomas More, David Wootton 3.90 avg rating — 166 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, Wendy Beckett (Foreword by) 3.46 avg rating — 164 ratings — published 1518 — 80 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1534 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sadness of Christ and Final Prayers and Benedictions by Thomas More, Clarence H. Miller (Translator), Gerard Wegemer (Editor) 4.40 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 1535 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sadness of Christ 4.46 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1535 — 34 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Last Letters of Thomas More by Thomas More, Alvaro De Silva (Editor) 4.23 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 1970 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Utopías del Renacimiento by Thomas More, Tommaso Campanella, Francis Bacon 3.75 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1973 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Four Last Things / The Supplication of Souls / A Dialogue on Conscience 3.93 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Sir Thomas More, Utopia

tags: education, manners, politics, punishment, scapegoats, thieves

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“A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

tags: beauty

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“[how can anyone] be silly enough to think himself better than other people, because his clothes are made of finer woolen thread than theirs. After all, those fine clothes were once worn by a sheep, and they never turned it into anything better than a sheep.”
― Thomas More, Utopia

tags: clothing, fashion, humorous, renaissance

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1847, Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, 251 pages

42 votes, 20.8%

1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages

33 votes, 16.3%

1869, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages

31 votes, 15.3%

1820, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving, 108 pages

28 votes, 13.9%

1865, From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, 136 pages

21 votes, 10.4%

1516, Utopia by Thomas More, 135 pages

20 votes, 9.9%

1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages

11 votes, 5.4%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages

9 votes, 4.5%

1759, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne 588 pages

7 votes, 3.5%

202 total votes

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