A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
THOMAS MOOREBastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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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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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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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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