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What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Thomas Moore

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
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Pretty Retirement Wife
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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Discover Emotion Flame Illusion Leadership Love Marriage Ourselves Truth
Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise.
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Advice Herself Woman
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
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Anguish Hard Time Healing Heart Heaven Inspirational Wound
The light, that lies In woman’s eyes, Has been my heart’s undoing.
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Heart Light Lying Woman
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
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Brain Drive Heaven Myself Reason
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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Friendship Love Steady Warm
Though an angel should write, still ’tis devils must print.
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Angel Devil Print Writing
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Humiliate Slave
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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Delicious Light Plant Roam Sun Wake Up
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.
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Ourselves Pain Sea Silence
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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Heaven Humility Shoot Virtue
While mantling on the maiden’s cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
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Rose Thinking Young
No, there’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
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Dreams Life Young
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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Day Light Memories Myself
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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Bright Lost Sweet

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

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