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The harp that once through Tara’s halls
The harp that once through Tara’s halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara’s walls As if that soul were fled.
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The heart is a mystery—not a puzzle that can’t be solved, but a mystery in the religious sense: unfathomable, beyond manipulation, showing traces of the finger of God.
The heart that is soonest awake to the flowers / Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.
The light that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone,
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.
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The only thing as challenging as getting tangled in the underbrush of relationship is trying to write about it.
The ordinary acts we practise every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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Thomas More (1478-1535) foi uma figura central do Renascimento inglês. Advogado, juiz, e depois Lorde Chanceler da Inglaterra, More era um intelectual respeitado e amigo próximo de Erasmo de Roterdão. Sua obra mais célebre, 'Utopia' (1516), cunhou o termo e apresentou uma visão crítica das sociedades europeias através da descrição de uma ilha imaginária com um sistema político e social perfeito. Sua fé católica inabalável o colocou em conflito com o Rei Henrique VIII quando este rompeu com a Igreja Católica Romana. A recusa de More em jurar lealdade ao rei como chefe supremo da Igreja da Inglaterra levou à sua prisão e subsequente decapitação na Torre de Londres, sendo canonizado pela Igreja Católica como São Tomás More.