Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
THOMAS MOORECame but for friendship, and took away love.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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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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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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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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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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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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