A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
THOMAS MOOREThe heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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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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Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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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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This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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