49 Thomas Moore Quotes

Thomas Moore quotes

1. Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time.

2. A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.

3. 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 dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!

4. I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!

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

6. Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah has triumphed-his people are free.

7. Oh, call it by some better name, For friendship sounds too cold.

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8. Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me!

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9. Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.

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10. And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.

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11. The harp that once through Tara's Hall The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's wall As if that soul were fled.

12. Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.

13. Believe me, if all those endearing young charms Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow and fleet in my arms, Like fairy gifts fading away. Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart, Would entwine itself verdantly still.

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

15. Eyes of unholy blue.

16. 'Tis the last rose of Summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.

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17. The Minstrel-Boy to the war is gone In the ranks of death you will find him His father's sword he hath girded on And his wild harp slung behind him.

18. And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!

19. You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

20. No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

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21. The light that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

22. My only books Were woman's looks, And folly's all they've taught me.

23. There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.

24. Some flow'rets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

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

26. Like Dead Sea fruits, that tempt the eye, But turn to ashes on the lips.

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

1. All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

2. 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.

3. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

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

5. A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.

6. A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

7. The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

8. And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

9. 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.

10. And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

11. 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!

12. What's important is finding out what works for you.

13. Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities--that's training or instruction--but is rather a making visible what is hidden as a seed... 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... One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated.

14. Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

15. A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

16. The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

17. Romantic is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair. Or else when the sweet emotions of love. Lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

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

19. Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

20. 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.

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

22. I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.