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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.

Thomas Moore

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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Discover Emotion Flame Illusion Leadership Love Marriage Ourselves Truth
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
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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Bright Lost Sweet
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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Brain Drive Heaven Myself Reason
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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Awake Heart Thorn Touch
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Anguish Hard Time Healing Heart Heaven Inspirational Wound
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman

No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.

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