Animosity is a weapon, and it’s not used against the person you can’t forgive – it’s used against yourself.
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About the gardens, drunk with that sweet food
...
THOMAS MOORE Every season hath its pleasure;
Spring may boast her flowery prime,
Yet the vineyard's ruby tr...
THOMAS MOORE Like Dead Sea fruit that tempts the eye,
But turns to ashes on the lips!
THOMAS MOORE This speck of life in time's great wilderness
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
T...
THOMAS MOORE Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
THOMAS MOORE Oh, for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the counci...
THOMAS MOORE Oh, colder than the wind that freezes
Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congeal...
THOMAS MOORE One sole desire, one passion now remains
To keep life's fever still within his veins,
Vengeanc...
THOMAS MOORE Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the
attempt.
THOMAS MOORE Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
HANNAH MOORE The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps...
HENRY MOORE Perish discretion when it interferes with duty
HANNAH MOORE Shall I ask the brave soldier, who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?...
THOMAS MOORE Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world i...
THOMAS MOORE How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night,
When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,
...
THOMAS MOORE Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom,
See...
THOMAS MOORE Cheek . . .
Flushing white and mellow'd red;
Gradual tints, as when there glows
In snowy...
THOMAS MOORE There written all
Black as the damning drops that fall
From the denouncing Angel's pen,
...
THOMAS MOORE Impatience is the mark of independence not of bondage.
MARIANNE MOORE