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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Thomas Moore

While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Close Forget Heart Love True
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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Bright Lost Sweet
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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Advice Herself Woman
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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Brain Drive Heaven Myself Reason
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
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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Delicious Light Plant Roam Sun Wake Up
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
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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Awake Heart Thorn Touch
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue

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