"Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance."
-Thomas Moore
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"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
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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 the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns."
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"A friendship that like love is warm A love like friendship, steady."
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"True change takes place in the imagination."
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"Came but for friendship, and took away love."
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