Thomas Moore Quotes

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Paradise itself were dim
And joyless, if not shared with him!

Thomas Moore
What though youth gave love and roses,
Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore
Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

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We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.

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Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells
Of youth and home, and that sweet time
When last I heard their soothing chime!

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To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.

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To live and die in scenes like this,
With some we 've left behind us.

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The spirit is fascinated by the future, wants to know the meaning of everything, and would like to stretch, if not break altogether, the laws of nature through technology or prayer. It is full of ideals and ambition, and is a necessary, rewarding, and inspiring aspect of human life.

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From plants that wake when others sleep.
From timid jasmine buds that keep
Their odour 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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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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A Persian's heaven is easily made:
'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.

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If I speak to thee in friendship's name,
Thou think'st I speak too coldly;
If I mention love's devoted flame,
Thou say'st I speak too boldly.

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Who ran
Through each mode of the lyre, and was master of all.

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Oh stay! oh stay!
Joy so seldom weaves a chain
Like this to-night, that oh 't is pain
To break its links so soon.

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The puny bird that dares with teasing hum Within the crocodile's stretched jaws to come!

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Lady Bab. Yes, my dear, a poem upon sol ammoniac - in which, under the name of the Loves of Ammonia, I have personified this interesting alkali, and described very tenderly all the various experiments that have been tried on her. Miss S. This is what has been called 'enlisting Poetry under the banners of Science,'

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The basil tuft, that waves Its fragrant blossom over graves.

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The humble rosemary Whose sweets so thanklessly are shed To scent the desert and the dead.

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The tuberose, with her silvery light, That in the gardens of Malay Is call'd the Mistress of the Night, So like a bride, scented and bright; She comes out when the sun's away.

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But one, the lofty followers of the Sun, Sad when he sets, shuts up her yellow leaves Drooping all night; and, when the warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray.

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Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth...

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Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.

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And the wind, full of wantonness, woos like a lover The young aspen-trees till they tremble all over.

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With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

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Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood And those that under Araby's soft sun Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.

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The maid of India, blessed again to hold In her full lap the Champac's leaves of gold

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The soul doesn't distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn't. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

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Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

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Anemones and Seas of Gold, And new-blown lilies of the river, And those sweet flow'rets that unfold Their buds on Camadera's quiver...

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Like tulip-beds of different shape and dyes, Bending beneath the invisible west-wind's sighs.

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