And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
THOMAS MOOREWhat though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
More Thomas Moore Quotes
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Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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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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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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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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My only books were woman’s looks, and folly’s all they’ve taught me.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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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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The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
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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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Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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