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I reflected how soon in the cup of desire
The pearl of the soul may be melted away;
How quickly, alas, the pure sparkle of fire
We inherit from heaven, may be quenched in the clay.

— Thomas Moore

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But there's nothing half so sweet in life
As love's young dream.

Irish Melodies (1807)

Though an angel should write, still 't is devils must print.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)

Just as the mind the erring sense believes,
The erring mind, in turn, the sense deceives.

Go where glory waits thee,
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me!

Irish Melodies (1807)

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Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

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The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

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