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This world is all a fleeting show,
For man's illusion given;
The smiles of joy, the tears of woe,
Deceitful shine, deceitful flow,—
There's nothing true but Heaven.

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

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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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