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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.

Thomas Moore

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Close Forget Heart Love True
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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Advice Herself Woman
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
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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Delicious Light Plant Roam Sun Wake Up
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave

My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.

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