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• But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, Grow pure by being purely shone upon.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas, The past, the future,--two eternities!
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Lalla Rookh, The Veiled Prophet of Khorassa...
• Oh, weep for the hour When to Eveleen's bower The lord of the valley with false vows came.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Eveleen's Bowe...
• I 'd be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
  -- Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839) -- I 'd be a Butterfly...
• What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. -- Thomas Moore
• Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast, The rapids are near, and the daylight 's past.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- A Canadian Boat-Song...
• You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Farewell! But whenever you welcome the Hou...
• And oh if there be an Elysium on earth, It is this, it is this!
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Light of the Harem...