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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

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
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
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
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Close Forget Heart Love True
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
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
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

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