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.
THOMAS MOOREDisguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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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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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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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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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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