Thomas Moore Quotes

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• A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
• Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
• 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…
• And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
• Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
• The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
• It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
• 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…
• All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
• Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
• Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
• Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
• A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
• Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
• This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
• Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
• It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal…
• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
• Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
• The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

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