What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
THOMAS MOOREFrom 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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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Humility, 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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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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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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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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