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Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

— Edward Moore

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More quotes by Edward Moore

But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
Her very shoe has power to wound.

Fables for the Female Sex (1744)

’Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

The Gamester (1753)

Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth,
And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.

But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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