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It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore
Born: 1779
Born: May 28
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It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.
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The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
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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 the part that is in life.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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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.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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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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This is the right time, and this is the right thing.
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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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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!
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I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.
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T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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