My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
THOMAS MOORE
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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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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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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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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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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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