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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.

Thomas Moore

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
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
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
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
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
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
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
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
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
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
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife

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