Thomas Moore Quotes

• Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

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• Came but for friendship, and took away love.

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• Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

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• And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.

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• All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

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• A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

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• A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

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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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• Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

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• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul.

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Thomas Moore (30)

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

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