Came but for friendship, and took away love.
THOMAS MOOREHumility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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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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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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