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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Thomas Moore

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
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
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
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
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
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
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
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
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
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

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