Thomas Moore Quotes

• Came but for friendship, and took away love.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Took

• While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Roses, Cheek

• 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 love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Romantic

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in About, Keep

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

  Thomas Moore

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Thorns, Awake

• Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.

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  Tags in Destruction, Perish

• A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.

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  Tags in Vanity, Fastidious

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

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  Tags in Sail, Seas

• Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

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  Tags in Flag, Slaves

• Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

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  Tags in Humility, Virtues

Thomas Moore (30)

Birth:	28th May, 1779
Death:	25th February, 1852
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Entertainer, Lyricist, Poet, Singer

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