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.
- Thomas Moore
Gardening, Away, About, Timid
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
- Thomas Moore
Loved, Never, Loves, Close
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.
- Thomas Moore
Woman, She, Very, Advise
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 Moore
Love, Down, Turn, Flames
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
- Thomas Moore
Love, Warm, Valentine's Day, Love Is
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
- Thomas Moore
Sympathy, Here, Anguish, Heal
Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
- Thomas Moore
Down, Like, Tranquillity, Ships
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
- Thomas Moore
Waves, Over, Slaves, Mockery
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.
- Thomas Moore
Bright, Made, Still, Fade
Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
- Thomas Moore
Devils, Still, Print, Tis
Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
- Thomas Moore
Women, Woman, Still, Tis
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.
- Thomas Moore
Wife, Retire, Pretty, Fastidious
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
- Thomas Moore
Love, Still, Though, Wine
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.
- Thomas Moore
Thought, Maiden, Cheek, Roses
Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
- Thomas Moore
Other, Saint Patrick's Day, Fond
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
- Thomas Moore
Humility, Low, Which, Shoot
And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
- Thomas Moore
Pain, Sail, Silent, Seas
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
- Thomas Moore
Nature, Flowers, Always, Awake
This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.
- Thomas Moore
Brain, Reason, Became, Heaven
Oh! blame not the bard.
- Thomas Moore
Blame, Oh
Came but for friendship, and took away love.
- Thomas Moore
Love, Friendship, Took, Came
It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
- Thomas Moore
Happiness, Happy, Tears, Luxury
My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
- Thomas Moore
Looks, Folly, Books, Taught
The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.
- Thomas Moore
Light, Woman, Been, Lies
No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
- Thomas Moore
Love, Dream, Young, Half
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