Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Aubrey Thomas de Vere (Irish Poet)

Aubrey Thomas De Vere (1814–1902) was an Irish poet and critic. His best-known works of verse are The Sisters (1861,) The Infant Bridal (1864,) Irish Odes (1869,) Legends of St Patrick (1872,) and Legends of the Saxon Saints (1879.)

Born in Curragh Chase, County Limerick, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, de Vere became a friend of the intellectual John Henry Newman and the poets William Wordsworth and Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

In addition to many volumes of poems, de Vere published poetical dramas on Alexander the Great (1874) and St Thomas of Canterbury (1876,) Essays chiefly on Poetry (2 vols., 1887,) Essays chiefly Literary and Ethical (1889,) and works on Irish ecclesiastical politics and literary criticism.

One of de Vere’s best-remembered poem is ‘Inisfail.’ Two of his historical poems, ‘The March to Kinsale’ and ‘The Ballad of Athlone,’ used to be on the Junior Cycle English syllabus.

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Memory, in widow’s weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Memories

Power’s footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Power

Prejudice, which sees what it pleases, cannot see what is plain.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Prejudice

This span of life was lent for lofty duties, not for selfishness; not to be whiled away in aimless dreams, but to improve ourselves and serve mankind.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Duty

Grief should be like joy, majestic, sedate, confirming, cleansing, equable, making free, strong to consume small troubles, to command great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Grief

Man should be ever better than he seem; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Man

There is no remedy for time misspent;
No healing for the waste of idleness,
Whose very languor is a punishment
Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
Aubrey Thomas de Vere
Topics: Idleness

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