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Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Thomas Moore

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
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
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Friendship Love Relationship
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
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Happiness Luxury Tears
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying 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
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
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
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Heaven Sea Tranquility
My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Book Myself Teaching Woman
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Friendship Love Rose Wine Youth
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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