A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
THOMAS MOOREAnd the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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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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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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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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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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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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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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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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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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