Thomas Moore quotes

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. (Thomas Moore)
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Thomas Moore
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
Thomas Moore
Where bastard Freedom waves The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past.
Thomas Moore
How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage. (Thomas Moore)
Like a young eagle who has lent his plume To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom, See their own feathers pluck'd to wing the dart Which rank corruption destines for their heart.
Thomas Moore
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.
Thomas Moore
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
Thomas Moore
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore
Ask a woman's advice, and, whate'er she advise, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
Thomas Moore
Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.
Thomas Moore
The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
Thomas Moore
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas Moore
The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
Thomas Moore
My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me. (Thomas Moore)
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Thomas Moore
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future,two eternities.
Thomas Moore
Earth hath no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Thomas Moore
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Thomas Moore