A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
– Thomas Moore
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
– Thomas Moore
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
– Thomas Moore
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
– Thomas Moore
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
– Thomas Moore
From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
– Thomas Moore
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
– Thomas Moore
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
– Thomas Moore
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
– Thomas Moore
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
– Thomas Moore
Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
– Thomas Moore
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
– Thomas Moore
On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?
– Thomas Moore
Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
– Thomas Moore
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.
– Thomas Moore
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.
– Thomas Moore
Steals timidly away, shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
– Thomas Moore
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
– Thomas Moore
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close.
– Thomas Moore
There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.
– Thomas Moore
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!
– Thomas Moore
Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt.
– Thomas Moore
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
– Thomas Moore
To Greece we give our shining blades.
– Thomas Moore
To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!
– Thomas Moore
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
– Thomas Moore
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
– Thomas Moore
Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
– Thomas Moore
True change takes place in the imagination.
– Thomas Moore
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.