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Thomas More

Also known as Sir Thomas More, Saint Thomas More, Thomas Morus, Thomas, Saint More, Thomas, Sir More

English statesman, lawyer and philosopher (1478–1535)

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Thomas More was an English statesman, lawyer, and philosopher who lived from 1478 to 1535 and played an important role in his country's political and intellectual life during the Renaissance. He is remembered as a significant historical figure whose work in government and philosophy influenced English thought, though his life ended in conflict with King Henry VIII over matters of conscience.

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Born: 1478
Died: 1535
Works: 270

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Famous Utopias
L'Utopie de Thomas Morus
Von der wunderbarlichen Jnnsel Vtopia genant, das ander Bůch, durch den wolgebronen hochgelerten herren Thomam Morũ Fryherñ, vñ des durchlüchtigistẽ, grossmechtigisten Künigs zů Engellandt Schatzmeister erstlich zů Latin gar kürtzlich beschriben vnd vssgelegt
Epistolae aliqvot ervditorum uirorum, ex quibus perspicuum quãta sit Eduardi Lei uirulentia
Tableau du meilleur gouvernement possible, ou l'Utopie

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Listeners: 197
Total plays: 1,294

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Arthur Schopenhauer, T. Bailey Saunders trans.MachiavelliPlatoJacob AbbottThomas Sowell

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
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The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
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U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,553x
STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,734x
UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,775x

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Quotes

“Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before it was neither rhyme nor reason.”
“Now there was a young gentleman which had married a merchant's wife. And having a little wanton money, which him thought burned out the bottom of his purse, in the first year of his wedding took his wife with him and went over sea, for none other errand but to see Flanders and France and ride out one summer in those countries.”
“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.”
“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. And this he doth not only because the proud spirit cannot endure to be mocked, but also lest, with much tempting the man to the sin to which he could not in conclusion bring him, he should much increase his merit.”
“The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.”
“I do nobody harm, I say none harm, I think none harm, but wish everybody good. And if this be not enough to keep a man alive, in good faith, I long not to live.”

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Image: Hans Holbein, the Younger - Sir Thomas More - Google Art Project.jpg

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Commons category: Thomas More
date of birth: 1478-02-07
date of death: 1535-07-06
birth name: Thomas More
Commons gallery: Thomas More
name in native language: Thomas More
Commons Creator page: Thomas More
P12749: Rosemarie Clausen
P13311: 7th century

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Works in European collections

23 objects attributed to Thomas More, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Utopia

Ambrosij des edlen Römers, so ettwan under Keyser Valentiniano durch Liguriam vnnd Aemiliam Landtpfleger vnd richter, nachmals vnder den Keysern Valentiniano vnnd Theodosio Bischoff zu Meyland gewesen ist. Drei bücher Officiorum (das ist) vom Wolstandt, was yedem menschen in seim stadt gebüret vnd wol an staht, vnd er nach gelegenheyt yedes dings, yeder person, zeit, statt vnnd Maß, anzurichten habe, damit niemant geschadet, vnnd yederman gedienet werde :

Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimiq uiri Thomae Mori ... ad emendatu exemplar ipsius autoris excusa

Doctissima D. Thomae Mori ... epistola, in qua non minus facete quam pie, respondet literis Ioannis Pomerani, hominis inter protestantes nominis non obscuri opusculum certe sacrarum literarum studiosis tum vtile, tum iucundum

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Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian and Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord Chancellor from October 1529 to May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, which describes the political system of an imaginary island state.

More opposed the Protestant Reformation, directing polemics against the theology of Martin Luther, Huldrych Zwingli and William Tyndale. More also opposed Henry VIII'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, More was convicted of treason on what he stated was false evidence, and was executed. At his execution, he was reported to have said: "I die the King's good servant, and God's first."