Frases de Thomas Moore

“Si la humanidad no renuncia inmediatamente y para siempre a su sueño vano, insensato y fatal de justicia, el mundo caerá en la barbarie.”

“Pedir el consejo de una mujer y, si ella lo aconseja,
 Haz lo contrario y estás seguro de ser sabio.”

“Aquellos corazones que anteriormente latían con osadía por la alabanza, ahora sienten que hasta han perdido el pulso.”

“Mi definición pura de la poesía: algo que el poeta crea fuera de su propia personalidad.”

“Siempre hay un verdadero camino y otro equivocado; y el equivocado siempre parece el más verdadero.”

“Ricas y raras eran las gemas que llevaba.
Y un anillo de oro brillante en su varita que llevaba.”

“A Grecia le damos nuestras espadas brillantes.”

“Nos puede ayudar, en esos tiempos difíciles, a recordar que el amor no es solo una relación, sino que también es un asunto del alma.”

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”

“Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?”

“Fly not yet; 't is just the hour
When pleasure, like the midnight flower
That scorns the eye of vulgar light,
Begins to bloom for sons of night
And maids who love the moon.”

“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.”

“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.”

“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

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

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

“A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.”

“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.”

“The devil… the prowde spirite… cannot endure to be mocked.”

“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.”

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

“Take all the pleasures of all the spheres,
And multiply each through endless years,—
One minute of heaven is worth them all.”

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

“Man for his glory
To ancestry flies;
But Woman's bright story
Is told in her eyes.”

“If thou would'st have me sing and play
As once I play'd and sung,
First take this time-worn lute away,
And bring one freshly strung.”

“The harp that once through Tara's halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls
As if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory's thrill is o'er;
And hearts that once beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse no more.”

“But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast
To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.”

“There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!”

“As half in shade and half in sun
This world along its path advances,
May that side the sun's upon
Be all that e'er shall meet thy glances!”

“Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.”

“Thus, when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted,
And looks around in fear and doubt.
But soon, the prospect clearing,
By cloudless starlight on he treads,
And thinks no lamp so cheering
As that light which Heaven sheds.”

“Where bastard Freedom waves
The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.”

“The light that lies
In woman's eyes,
Has been my heart's undoing.”

“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms
Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,
Were to change by to-morrow and fleet in my arms,
Like fairy gifts fading away.
Thou wouldst still be adored as this moment thou art,
Let thy loveliness fade as it will,
And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart,
Would entwine itself verdantly still.”

“"Come, come," said Tom's father, "at
your time of life,
There's no longer excuse for thus
playing the rake--
It is time you should think, boy, of
taking a wife."
"Why, so it is father--whose wife
shall I take?"”