Came but for friendship, and took away love.
THOMAS MOOREHumility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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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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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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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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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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