Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
THOMAS MOOREHumility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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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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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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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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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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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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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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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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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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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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