Thomas Morton Quote

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

Thomas Morton

Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when a man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost.

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Thomas Morton may refer to:

Thomas Morton (bishop) (1564–1659), Bishop of Durham and Chester in the 17th century
Thomas Morton (playwright) (1764–1838), British playwright
Thomas Morton (colonist) (c. 1579–1647), British lawyer & early colonist of Massachusetts
Thomas Morton (journalist) (active 2014), American journalist
Thomas Morton (shipwright) (1781–1832), inventor of the Patent slip
Thomas Morton (surgeon) (1813–1849), English surgeon
Thomas Corsan Morton (1859–1928), Scottish artist of the Glasgow School
Thomas Lewis Morton (1846–1914), English-born farmer and politician in Manitoba, Canada
Thomas Morton (priest) (1894-1968), catholic priest and writer
Thomas Morton (MP for Gloucestershire), English Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire
Thomas Morton (MP for Bishop's Lynn), 14th-century English Member of Parliament
Tom Morton (born 1955), Scottish journalist, author and BBC Radio Scotland broadcaster