It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
THOMAS MOOREBastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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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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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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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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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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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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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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