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.
THOMAS MOOREWhile mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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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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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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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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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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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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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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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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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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