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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.

Thomas Moore

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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Awake Heart Thorn Touch
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
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
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Anguish Hard Time Healing Heart Heaven Inspirational Wound
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
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
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship
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
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
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
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
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

Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.

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