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A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#friendship #like #love #love is #steady

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

#affair #discover #down #else #emotions

Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#destruction #often #others #perish #plot

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body. ↗

— Jeanne Moreau

#few #many #mind #states #words

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. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#about #all day #away #breeze #buds

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

#brightest #fade #lost #made #must

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#freedom #her #mockery #over #slaves

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#half #life #love #nothing #sweet

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#gone #heaven #like #sea #ships

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#allowance #double #forty #him #i