Quotes by Thomas Moore

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.
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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 ...

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Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to life what has been lost through love what we get is o...

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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.

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Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may...

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Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

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Práce s duší není snadná. Obvykle nás přivádí na taková místa, jejichž návštěvu bychom si raději odpustili, a probouzí takové pocity, o které nejméně stojíme. Nejcennější cesta může být také tou nejobtížnější. Není ...

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Existují domácí bohové a naše každodenní práce je způsobem, jak projevit uznání těmto domácím duchům, kteří jsou pro udržení našeho života tak důležití. Rýžák je pak posvátným předmětem, a když tento nástroj užívám...

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To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

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Existuje mnoho forem spirituality. Jednou z nich je spiritualita transcendence - tázání se po vznešených vizích, univerzálních morálních principech a osvobození od mnoha omezení lidského života. Ovšem i strom, zvíře, potok nebo lesn�...

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It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

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The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

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Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

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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.

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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

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While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Moore
  • DescriptionIrish poet, singer and songwriter
  • AliasesTom Moore
  • BornMay 28, 1779
  • DiedFebruary 25, 1852
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPoet; Jurist; Singer; Songwriter; Composer; Novelist; Writer
  • AwardsOrder Of Merit For Arts And Science