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Thomas Moore

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


— Thomas Moore


#perfection #life

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.


— Thomas Moore


#law-of-attraction #thomas-moore #imagination

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.


— Thomas Moore


#life

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


— Thomas Moore


#problems #imagination

Most of the people I know who are having trouble finding their life work are somewhat passive in style. They wait for something good to happen to them rather than make strong positive moves.


— Thomas Moore


#life

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.


— Thomas Moore


#forever #glory #obscurity

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.


— Thomas Moore


#luxury #only #tears

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.


— Thomas Moore


#gone #heaven #like #sea #ships

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.


— Thomas Moore


#friendship #like #love #love is #steady

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.


— Thomas Moore


#right thing #right time #the right thing #thing #time






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A Poem with Songs (December 1831)
Irish Antiquities (The Times 5 March 1832)
From the Hon. (The Metropolitan Magazine August 1832)
Verses to the Poet Crabbe's Inkstand (The Metropolitan Magazine August 1832)
Tory Pledges (The Times 30 August 1832)
Song to the Departing Spirit of Tithe (The Metropolitan Magazine September 1832)
The Duke is the Lad (The Times 2 October 1832)
St. They met at Chalk Farm but the duel was interrupted by the arrival of the authorities and they were arrested.

In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore. He was responsible with John Murray for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet singer songwriter and entertainer now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of Summer.

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