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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

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
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
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
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
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
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
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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