The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
THOMAS MOOREThough an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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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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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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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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