Thomas Moore Quotes
An Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and the The Last Rose of Summer.
(1779 - 1852)
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'Twas but for a moment - and yet in that time she crowded the impressions of many an hour; her eye had a glow, like the sun of her clime, which waked every feeling at once into flower!
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered: "Opportunity."
[Opportunity]
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
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Alas! too well, too well they know the pain, the penitence, the woe, that passion brings down on the best, the wisest, and the loveliest.
[Passion]
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Blest tears of soul-felt penitence, in whose benign, redeeming flow, is felt the first, the only sense of guiltless joy that guilt can know.
[Repentance]
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
[Heaven]
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Eve, with all the fruits of Eden blest, save only one, rather than leave that one unknown, lost all the rest.
[Curiosity]
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Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
[Fanaticism]
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Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
[Humility]
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
[Criticism]
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It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.
[Spirituality]
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