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

Thomas Moore

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
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
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
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
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
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
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
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing

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