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

—  Thomas Moore

Oh think not my Spirits are always as light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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Irish poet, singer and songwriter 1779–1852

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