My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
THOMAS MOOREWhat though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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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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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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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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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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