The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked. - Thomas Moore
Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shown Now dimmed and gone,The cheerful hearts now broken.(from When the Splendor Falls by Laurie McBain) - Thomas Moore
Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized. - Thomas Moore
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. - Thomas Moore
A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level of reality. - Thomas Moore
Music, oh, how faint, how weak,Language fades before thy spell!Why should Feeling ever speak,When thou canst breathe her soul so well? - Thomas Moore
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see,Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me;In exile thy bosom shall still be my home,And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam. - Thomas Moore
I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,That star on life's tremulous ocean. - Thomas Moore
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. - Thomas Moore
To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. - Thomas Moore
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. - Thomas Moore
There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. - Thomas Moore