Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore
Thomas Moorewas an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer". He was responsible, with John Murray, for burning Lord Byron's memoirs after his death. In his lifetime he was often referred to as Anacreon Moore...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 May 1779
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
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On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining, While my soul expands with glee, What are kings and crowns to me?
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Family life is full of major and minor crises -- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce -- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It's difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul.
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Steals timidly away, shrinking as violets do in summer's ray.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rouT to retire upon.
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Some of the situations that they would be useful in would be during search and rescue operations, ... The camera basically picks up heat information and shows us where it's emitting on the screen inside the patrol car.
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It's not meant for someone to swerve across the road and hit it (head on) at 35 miles an hour.
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If it's too good to be true, they are probably the wrong thing to take,
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My only books, / Were Woman's looks, / And Folly's all they taught me.
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Very few universities take the time to identify corporate partners and work with them to understand exactly what skills-sets they want in the MBAs they hire.
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To live with them is far less sweet, than to remember thee!
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Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs?
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Pythagoras asks that we not let a friend go lightly, for whatever reason. Instead, we should stay with a friend as long as we can, until we're compelled to abandon him completely against our will. It's a serious thing to toss away money, but to cast aside a person is even more serious. Nothing in human life is more rarely found, nothing more dearly possessed. No loss is more chilling or more dangerous than that of a friend.
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A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.
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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.