66 Famous Quotes by Thomas Moore
5/28/1779 - 2/25/1852
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About Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer. He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore.
How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,
Goes answering light.
Echo
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Echo
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Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
Gold
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
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Every season hath its pleasure;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries
Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.
Autumn
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Spring and Autumn
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Together kneeling, night and day,
Thou, for my sake, at Allah's shrine,
And I--at any God's for thine.
Worship
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (fourth division, l. 309)
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Where bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Slavery
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes, written from the City of Washington
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Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night.
Evening
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Fly Not Yet
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Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.
Wishes
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Remember Thee
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I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.
Morality
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Morality
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There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and
vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their
cause.
Morality
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Morality
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I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up ugen middle-class
morality all the time . . . . What is middle-class morality?
Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
Morality
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Morality
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Oh, colder than the wind that freezes
Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congealing pang which seizes
The trusting bosom, when betray'd.
Treachery
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
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Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!
Treachery
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers
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Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
Shall I give up the friend I have valued and tried,
If he kneel not before the same altar with me?
From the heretic girl of my soul should I fly,
To seek somewhere else a more orthodox kiss?
No! perish the hearts, and the laws that try
Truth, valour, or love, by a standard like this!
Doctrine
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Irish Melodies--Come Send Round the Wine
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Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us
Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
France
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Fudge Family (8)
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Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off.
Dissension
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem (l. 183)
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There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
Swearing
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
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But the trail of the serpent is over them all.
Sin
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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In Adam's fall--
We sinned all.
Sin
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.
Sin
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Humility
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Loves of the Angels--Third Angel's Story (st. 11)
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Those golden birds that, in the spice-time, drop
About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food
Whose scent hath lur'd them o'er the summer flood;
And those that under Araby's soft sun
Build their high nests of budding cinnamon.
Birds of paradise
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See their own feathers pluck'd, to wing the dart,
Which rank corruption destines for their heart!
Eagles
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Corruption
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Hath the pearl less whiteness
Because of its birth?
Hath the violet less brightness
For growing near earth?
Violets
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Desmond's Song
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Steals timidly away,
Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
Violets
Quotes, by Thomas Moore , Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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