And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
THOMAS MOORE
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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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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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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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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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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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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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