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• We live behind our faces, while they front for us.
• To live in hearts we leave behind Is not to die.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Hallowed Ground...
• My only books Were woman's looks,-- And folly 's all they 've taught me.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Time I 've lost in wooing...
• The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light there is shed upon them.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Preface to Corruption and Intolerance...
• T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dea
  And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near....
• The light that lies In woman's eyes. -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Time I 've lost in wooing
• To Greece we give our shining blades.
  -- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- Evenings in Greece, First Evening...
• We cannot prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days.
  But so said all before us, and with just as much reason....
• Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay
  I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away....