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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

The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
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
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
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
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
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
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
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
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

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