| 66 Famous Quotes by Thomas Moore
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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!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Corruption
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“To live with them is far less sweet,
Than to remember thee!”
Proverbs Quotes Source: I Saw Thy Form in Youthful Prime
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“How calm, how beautiful comes on
The stilly hour, when storms are gone!
When warring winds have died away,
And clouds, beneath the glancing ray,
Melt off, and leave the land and sea
Sleeping in bright tranquillity.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Fire Worshippers (st. 52)
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“All that's bright must fade,--
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest.”
Proverbs Quotes Source: National Airs--All That's Bright Must Fade
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“Yes,--rather plunge me back in pagan night,
And take my chance with Socrates for bliss,
Than be the Christian of a faith like this,
Which builds on heavenly cant its earthly sway,
And in a convert mourns to lose a prey.”
Christianity Quotes Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
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“Take up the cross if thou the crown would'st gain.
[Lat., Tolle crucem, qui vis auferre coronam.]”
Christianity Quotes Source: Intolerance (l. 68)
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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.”
Judgment Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (st. 28)
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“Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely shone upon.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“Go where glory waits thee;
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me.”
Glory Quotes Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
Glory Quotes Source: Go Where Glory Waits Thee
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“And soon, too soon, we part with pain,
To sail o'er silent seas again.”
Meeting Quotes Source: Meeting of the Ships
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“Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.”
Printing Quotes Source: The Fudge Family in England (letter III)
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“To-morrow the dreams and flowers will fade.”
Tomorrow Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Light of the Harem--Song
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“Bastard Freedom waves
Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”
Flags Quotes Source: To the Lord Viscount Forbes
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“I am nothing and to nothing tend,
On earth I nothing have and nothing claim,
Man's noblest works must have one common end,
And nothing crown the tablet of his name.”
Work Quotes Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
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“Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession
until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double
allowance.”
Work Quotes Source: Ode upon Nothing, appeared in "Saturday Magazine" about 1836, but not in collected works
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“It seem'd as if each thought and look
And motion were that minute chain'd
Fast to the spot such root she took,
And--like a sunflower by a brook,
With face upturn'd--so still remain'd!”
Sensibility Quotes Source: Loves of the Angels--First Angel's Story (l. 33)
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“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”
Sensibility Quotes Source: O Think Not My Spirits
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“Those evening bells! those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells!”
Bells Quotes Source: Those Evening Bells
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“For, bless the gude mon, gin he had his ain way,
He's na let a cat on the Sabbath say "mew;"
Nae birdie maun whistle, nae lambie maun play,
An' Phoebus himsel' could na travel that day,
As he'd find a new Joshua in Andie Agnew.”
Sabbath Quotes Source: Sunday Ethics (st. 3)
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“Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.”
Jewels Quotes Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
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“While mantling on the maiden's cheek
Young roses kindled into thought.”
Blushes Quotes Source: Evenings in Greece (Evening, II, Song)
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“Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye,
But turns to ashes on the lips!”
Apples Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--The Fire Worshippers (l. 1018)
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“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 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 Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
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