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Thomas Moore on Life

1779–1852 Ireland

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A narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities.

Lalla Rookh (1817)

The longer one lives the more he learns.

Life is a waste of wearisome hours
Which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns;
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers,
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Irish Melodies (1807)

Vain were the man, and false as vain,
Who said, were he ordained to run
His long career of life again
He would do all that he had done.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Moore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.