Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOOREThe heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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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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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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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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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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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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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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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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