Edward Moore
Edward Moore
Edward Moore, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, was born at Abingdon, Berkshire...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth22 March 1712
It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.
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There's a lot of trouble with our youth. I've watched a couple of generations fail... . It starts at home. There are children who don't have a father, or a father figure. They are primarily raised by women with no male role models.
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The noise and customer confusion following all the acquisitions is quieting down.
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A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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I think when you're blessed with great influences, you need to spread it.
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Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
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Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.
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'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
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Faith goes out through the window when beauty comes in at the door.
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If I am asked 'what is good?' my answer is that good is good, and that is the end of the matter.
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I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.
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I'll tell thee what it says; it calls me villain, a treacherous husband, a cruel father, a false brother; one lost to nature and her charities; or to say all in one short word, it calls me - Gamester.
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Honesty needs no pains to set itself off.