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• 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

  Real, Thinking, Keys

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• From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

  Thomas Moore

  Sleep, Secret, Bud

  Thomas Moore (1821). “Lalla Rookh”, p.136, Gottfried & Fritz

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• I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

  Thomas Moore

  Needs, World, Enchanting

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• Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.

  Thomas Moore

  Teacher, Jesus, Two

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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

  Thomas Moore

  Stars, Ocean, Light

  Thomas Moore (1836). “Melodies, Songs, Sacred Songs, and National Airs: Containing Several Never Before Published in America”, p.40

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• Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

  Thomas Moore

  Wise, Wisdom, Bondage

  Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.820, Delphi Classics

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• Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

  Thomas Moore

  Soul, Found, Taboo

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

  Thomas Moore

  Flags, Slave, Wave

  Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.348, Delphi Classics

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• Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

  Thomas Moore

  Children, Passion, Fate

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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

  Thomas Moore

  Luxury, Tears

  Thomas Moore (1842). “Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance”, p.227

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• The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

  Thomas Moore

  Pride, Devil, Endure

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• It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.

  Thomas Moore

  Heart, Rose, Soul

  Thomas Moore (1861). “Poetical works”, p.235

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• The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

  Thomas Moore

  Ambition, Giving, Trying

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.

  Thomas Moore

  Writing, Angel, Devil

  'The Fudges in England' (1835) letter 3, l. 64

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• Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.

  Thomas Moore

  Sunshine, Sea, Snow

  Thomas Moore (1845). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, Etc”, p.192

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• 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

  Art, Home, Eye

  Thomas Moore, J. W. Lake (1829). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore Including His Melodies, Ballads, Etc: Complete in One Volume”, p.286

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• This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

  Thomas Moore

  Heaven, Brain, Glimpse

  Thomas Moore (1842). “Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance”, p.90

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

  Thomas Moore

  Sea, Heaven, Gone

  Thomas Moore (1823). “The works of Thomas Moore, comprehending all his melodies, ballads, etc”, p.305

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