And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
THOMAS MOOREThe light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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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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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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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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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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