| 66 Famous Quotes by Thomas Moore
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“Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,
Soon as the woods on shore dim,
We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daylight's past.”
Boating Quotes Source: Canadian Boat Song
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“Dear creature!--you'd swear
When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round,
That her steps are of light, that her home is the air,
And she only par complaisance touches the ground.”
Dancing Quotes Source: Fudge Family in Paris (letter V, l. 50)
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“With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence--o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!”
Absence Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“O, the Shamrock, the green, immortal Shamrock!
Chosen leaf
OF Bard and Chief,
Old Erin's native Shamrock.”
Shamrocks Quotes Source: Oh, the Shamrock
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“Cheek . . .
Flushing white and mellow'd red;
Gradual tints, as when there glows
In snowy milk the bashful rose.”
Faces Quotes Source: Odes of Anacreon--Ode XV (l. 27)
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“Good-bye--my paper's out so nearly,
I've only room for, Yours sincerely.”
Post Quotes Source: The Fudge Family in Paris (letter VI)
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“Then should some cloud pass over
The brow of sire or lover,
Think 'tis the shade
By Victory made
Whose wings right o'er us hover!”
Victory Quotes Source: Battle Song
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“Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquillity.”
Ships Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem
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“On my velvet couch reclining,
Ivy leaves my brow entwining,
While my soul expands with glee,
What are kings and crowns to me?”
Ivy Quotes Source: Odes of Anacreon (ode XLVIII)
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“One sole desire, one passion now remains
To keep life's fever still within his veins,
Vengeance! dire vengeance on the wretch who cast
O'er him and all he lov'd that ruinous blast.”
Revenge Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.”
Revenge Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!”
Eternity Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and
that is eternity.”
Eternity Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan (st. 42)
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“One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate.”
Paradise Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri
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“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.”
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“The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.”
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