Thomas Moore

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“'Tis the last rose of summer, Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.”

“My birthday! what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how, each time the day comes round, Less and less welcome it appears.”

“This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, - There's nothing true but heaven.”

“The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light is shed upon them.”

“A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.”

“You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.”

“Go where glory waits thee, But while fame elates thee, Oh! still remember me.”

“The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone, In the ranks of death you'll find him.”

“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 turned when he rose.”

“But the trail of the serpent is over them all.”

“Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.”

“There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.”

“Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”

“The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.”

“I knew by the smoke that so gracefully curled Above the green elms, that a cottage was near, And I said, 'If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that is humble might hope for it here.'”