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.
THOMAS MOOREAnd soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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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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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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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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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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 the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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