"The problem in narcissism is not the high……" — Thomas Moore
"The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body."
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58 Quotes by Thomas Moore
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else…
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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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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but…
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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…
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by…
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A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
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All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was…
— Paul Auster
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Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions.…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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The early commentators who put down the pre-presidential Roosevelt as an empty-headed young lightweight, all ambition and no talent, now…
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
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