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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

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
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
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
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
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying 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
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
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
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself

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