Thomas Moore
31 quotes
Biography
Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist. Widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard", his fame and reputation rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies.
"No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream."
"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."
"Came but for friendship, and took away love."
"It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed"
"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."
"It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul."
"There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream."
"I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,That star on life's tremulous ocean."
"Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…"
"Eyes of unholy blue."
"But the trail of the serpent is over them all."
"It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury."
"Beholding heaven, and feeling hell."
"Love on through all ills, and love on till they die."
"The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them."
"Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print."
"To Greece we give our shining blades."
"True change takes place in the imagination."
"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."
"Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves."
"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."
"True change takes place in the imagination."
"Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."
"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."
"And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."