Thomas Moore Quotes

• I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, that star on life’s tremulous ocean.

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• Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?

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• Oh! ever thus, from childhood’s hour, I’ve seen my fondest hopes decay; I never loved a tree or flower, But ’twas the first to fade away. I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me, it was sure to die!

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• No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life As love’s young dream.

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• 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 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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• There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet; Oh! the last rays of feeling and life must depart Ere the bloom of that valley shall fade from my heart.

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• A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences.

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• Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.

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• While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

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• True change takes place in the imagination.

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• Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.

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• Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

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• The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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• No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.

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• Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

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• It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

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• Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

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• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

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Birth:	28th May, 1779
Death:	25th February, 1852
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Entertainer, Lyricist, Poet, Singer

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