Disguise our bondage as we will, ‘Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
THOMAS MOORELike ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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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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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Came but for friendship, and took away love.
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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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