A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
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
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
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
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.
Thomas Moore
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Thomas Moore
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
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
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
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore
This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
Thomas Moore
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore
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