"Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine……" — Thomas Moore
"Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance 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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58 Quotes by Thomas Moore
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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
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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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Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else…
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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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Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
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The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
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It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
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From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but…
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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…
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Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
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Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.
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Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.
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