Thomas Moore - Love Quotes

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Oh! ever thus, from childhood's hour,
I've seen my fondest hope decay;
I never loved a tree or flower,
But 'twas the first to fade away.
I never nurs'd 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.

Thomas Moore
To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!

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

Thomas Moore
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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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.

Thomas Moore
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!

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

Thomas Moore
'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove
We are sure to find something blissful and dear;
And that when we 're far from the lips we love,
We've but to make love to the lips we are near.

Thomas Moore
Oft in the stilly night,
Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,
Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me;
The smiles, the tears,
Of boyhood's years,
The words of love then spoken;
The eyes that shone Now dimmed and gone,
The cheerful hearts now broken.

Thomas Moore
When twilight dews are falling soft
Upon the rosy sea, love,
I watch the star whose beam so oft
Has lighted me to thee, love.

Thomas Moore
Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.

Thomas Moore
I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.

Thomas Moore
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.

Thomas Moore
An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a sensation of fulfillment that makes life purposeful and vibrant.

Thomas Moore
There is nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dreams.

Thomas Moore
Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

Thomas Moore
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

Thomas Moore
No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets,
But as truly loves on to the close,
As the sun-flower turns on her god, when he sets,
The same look which she turned when he rose.

Thomas Moore
Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

Thomas Moore
Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour,
I 've seen my fondest hopes decay;
I never loved a tree or flower
But 't was the first to fade away.
I never nurs'd 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.

Thomas Moore
Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.

Thomas Moore
Fly not yet; 't is just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.

Thomas Moore
A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.

Thomas Moore
This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

Thomas Moore
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

Thomas Moore