Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
THOMAS MOOREFond memory brings the light of other days around me.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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All that’s bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that’s sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
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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.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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