The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
THOMAS MOOREHere bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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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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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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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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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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