| 66 Famous Quotes by Thomas Moore
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Source: Fudge Family (8)
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“To Greece we give our shining blades.”
Greece Quotes Source: Evenings in Greece--First Evening
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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 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 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 Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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“In Adam's fall--
We sinned all.”
Sin Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Paradise and the Peri (l. 206)
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“Young Timothy
Learnt sin to fly.”
Sin Quotes 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 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 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 Source: Corruption
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“Find me next a Poppy posy,
Type of his harangues so dozy.”
Poppies Quotes Source: Wreaths for the Ministers
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“Hath the pearl less whiteness
Because of its birth?
Hath the violet less brightness
For growing near earth?”
Violets Quotes Source: Desmond's Song
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“Steals timidly away,
Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.”
Violets Quotes Source: Lalla Rookh--Veiled Prophet of Khorassan
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“Now in his Palace of the West,
Sinking to slumber, the bright Day,
Like a tired monarch fann'd to rest,
'Mid the cool airs of Evening lay;
While round his couch's golden rim
The gaudy clouds, like courtiers, crept--
Struggling each other's light to dim,
And catch his last smile e'er he slept.”
Sunset Quotes Source: The Summer Fete (st. 22)
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