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Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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
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
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
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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Discover Emotion Flame Illusion Leadership Love Marriage Ourselves Truth
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bondage Ourselves Rule Woman
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
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
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
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

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

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