Thomas Moore quotes and sayings
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Thomas Moore quotes
- The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
- Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
- Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
- Oh! blame not the bard.
- A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
- 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.
- And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
- Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
- What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
- From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.