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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.

Thomas Moore

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
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
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
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
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
Oh! blame not the bard.
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Blame One Liner
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
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
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
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
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

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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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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