A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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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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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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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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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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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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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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