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Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
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
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
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
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
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
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
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
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
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
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
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

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