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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.

Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore
Born: 1779
Born: May 28
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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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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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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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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
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Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.
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