Frases de Thomas Moore

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“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.”

“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free,
First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

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

“And the best of all ways
To lengthen our days
Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!”

“Love, nursed among pleasures, is faithless as they,
But the love born of Sorrow, like Sorrow, is true.”

“Accurst is the march of that glory
Which treads o'er the hearts of the free.”

“A Persian's heaven is easily made:
'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.”

“As sunshine broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.”

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

“Oh for a tongue to curse the slave
Whose treason, like a deadly blight,
Comes o'er the councils of the brave,
And blasts them in their hour of might!”

“Paradise itself were dim
And joyless, if not shared with him!”

“And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls,
Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.”

“Love on through all ills, and love on till they die.”

“The tribute most high to a head that is royal,
Is love from a heart that loves liberty too.”

“Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade,
Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.”

“When true hearts lie wither'd
And fond ones are flown,
Oh, who would inhabit
This bleak world alone?”

“Eyes of unholy blue.”

“If you want to be successful you must look successful. ”