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Thomas Moore was a 18th-century Irish poet, singer and songwriter. Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet, and lyricist, widely regarded in his lifetime as Ireland's "national bard". The acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life
  • Work — The value of effort, discipline, and meaningful labour

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“I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,That star on life's tremulous ocean.”
— Thomas Moore
hope

“Besides, the story is ambivalent and mysterious in its ending. Is this Alkestis returning from down below? Why does she have a veil over her face? Could it be that when we forcefully bring back to ...”
— Thomas Moore
alkestis death love submission

“A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level...”
— Thomas Moore
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“There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. ”
— Thomas Moore
inspiration love

“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”
— Thomas Moore
disappointment soul tragedies

“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu”
— Thomas Moore
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