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Thomas Moore
Irish
Poet
About the author
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Right
#Work
#World
#Soul
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Thought
#Roses
True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Imagination
#Change
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Destruction
This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Time
#Right
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Heart
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Study
#Age
#Profession
#Investigation
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,
Irish
Poet
#Love
#End
#Truth
#Emotions
#Marriage
#Illusion
#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,
Irish
Poet
#Day
#Sleep
#Plants
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Life
#Love
#Nothing
#Dream
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Deep
#Wisdom
#Mystery
#Intelligence
#Appreciation
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Humility
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Luxury
#Tears
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,
Irish
Poet
#Information
#Education
#Training
#Facts
#Learning
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Love
#Friendship
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Freedom
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Heart
#First
#Flowers
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Pain
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,
Irish
Poet
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Wife
#Pretty
#Vanity
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Love
#Friendship
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore,
Irish
Poet
#Sea
#Heaven
#Ships