Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.
Quotes from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed — Thomas Moore
1779–1852 Ireland
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And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
I know not, I ask not, if guilt 's in that heart,
I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
And when once the young heart of a maiden is stolen,
The maiden herself will steal after it soon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
There is not in the wide world a valley so sweet
As that vale in whose bosom the bright waters meet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Whose wit in the combat, as gentle as bright,
Ne'er carried a heart-stain away on its blade.
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Good at a fight, but better at a play;
Godlike in giving, but the devil to pay.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
'T is believ'd that this harp which I wake now for thee
Was a siren of old who sung under the sea.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
The moon looks
On many brooks,
"The brook can see no moon but this."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Humility, that low, sweet root
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
To live with them is far less sweet
Than to remember thee.
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
There was a little man, and he had a little soul;
And he said, Little Soul, let us try, try, try!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side
In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
A friendship that like love is warm;
A love like friendship, steady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Weep on! and as thy sorrows flow,
I 'll taste the luxury of woe.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish;
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
How shall we rank thee upon glory's page,
Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Where bastard Freedom waves
The fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thomas Moore (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.