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Thomas Moore
Born: 1779
Born: May 28
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A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!
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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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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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Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.
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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.
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Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.
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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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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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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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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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The past, the future: - two eternities!
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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.
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T'is the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone.
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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
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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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