in another at once. He that fixes upon her shall find a beauty which will every day take him with some new grace or other. I like that love which, by a soft ascension, does agree itself into the soul. As for an enemy who is long a-making, he is much the worse for being ill no sooner. hates not without cause who is unwilling to hate at all. 3309 He Owen Felltham: Resolves. Pt. i. A Friend and As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure. But there's no love lost between us. Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer. 3310 3311 Act iv. Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Love is many-sided sacrifice. It means thoughtfulness for others; it means putting their good before self-gratification. Love is impulse, no doubt, but true love is impulse wisely directed. 3312 Bk. iii. Hugh R. Haweis: Speech in Season. Almsgiving. Sec. 347. Charity Defined. Though love is such an eternal passion, there is no passion less sympathized with by others who are free from its influence. 3313 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. Diffidence and awkwardness are the two antidotes to love. 3314 Hazlitt: Sketches and Essays. On Disagreeable People. Love is the most powerful of spells, every other species of sorcery must yield to it. There is but one power against which it is helpless. What is that? It is not fire, it is not water, it is not air, it is not the earth with all its metals; it is time. 3315 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Elementary To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one must be suffering. Pity is the last consecration of love, is, perhaps, love itself. 3316 Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. Travel- The love of home is strong, and the love of country is strong; but the love of God is supreme, and fertilizes and vitalizes all other loves. 3317 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. VI. The National Heart. Love is sparingly soluble in the words of men, therefore they speak much of it; but one syllable of woman's speech can dissolve more of it than a man's heart can hold. 3318 Holmes: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table Ch. 11. ᎧᎧ LOVE. Entire love is a worship, and cannot be angry. The Bull Fight Love is a perpetual proof that something good and earnest and eternal is meant us, such a bribe and foretaste of bliss being given us to keep us in the lists of time and progression; and, when the world has realized what love urges it to obtain, perhaps death will cease, and all the souls which love has created crowd back at its summons to inhabit their perfected world. 3320 Leigh Hunt: The Seer. Sunday in London. No. 2. To love, even if not beloved, is to have the sweetest of faiths, and riches fineless, which nothing can take from us but our own unworthiness. 3321 Leigh Hunt: The Seer. Sunday in London. No. 2. The sentiment of love may be, and is, in a great measure, a fostered growth of poetry and romance, and balderdashed with false sentiment; but with all its vitiations, it is the beauty and the charm, the flavor and the fragrance, of all intercourse between man and woman; it is the rosy cloud in the morning of life; and if it does too often resolve itself into the shower, yet, to my mind, it only makes our nature more fruitful in what is excellent and amiable. 3322 Washington Irving: Washington Irving, by Charles Dudley Warner. Ch. 6. Letter to Mrs. Foster when at Herrnhuthers. (American Men of Letters.) There shall be no love lost, sir. I'll assure you. 3323 Ben Jonson: Every Man out of his Humor. Love is swift, sincere, pious, pleasant, gentle, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, manly, and never seeking her own; for wheresoever a man seeketh his own, there he falleth from love. 3324 Thomas à Kempis: Imitation of Christ. Bk. iii. Ch. 5. (Benham, Translator.) It is a weakness to love; it is sometimes another weakness to attempt the cure of it. 3325 La Bruyère: Characters. Of the Heart. (Rowe, It is no more in our power to love always, than it was not to love. 3326 La Bruyère: Characters. Of the Heart. (Rowe, Translator.) Sudden love is the latest cured. 3327 La Bruyère: Characters. Of the Heart. (Rowe Translator.) We never love heartily but once, and that is the first time we love. 3328 La Bruyère: Characters. Of the Heart. (Rowe, Women exceed the generality of men in love. 3329 La Bruyère: Characters. Of Women. (Rowe, Translator.) To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. 3330 Lamartine: Graziella. Pt. iv. Ch. 5. (Runnion, Translator.) True love is the ripe fruit of a lifetime. 3331 Lamartine Graziella. Pt. iv. Ch. 30. (Runnion, Translator.) Love is a secondary passion in those who love most, a primary in those who love least. 3332 Landor: Imaginary Conversations. Roger Ascham and Lady Jane Grey. As in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance than from knowledge. 3333 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 441. Not to love is in love an infallible means of being beloved. 3334 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and Moral Maxims. No. 60. The greatest miracle of love is to eradicate flirtation. The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire. 3336 La Rochefoucauld: Reflections; or, Sentences and A man who does not love sincerely sets his face against the distinguishing mark between a friend and a flatterer. 3337 Le Sage: Gil Blas. Bk. vii. Ch. 4. (Smollett, It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun. 3338 Longfellow: Kavanagh. Ch. 21. There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. 3339 Longfellow: Hyperion. Bk. iii. Ch. 6. Love is the business of the idle, but the idleness of the busy. 3340 Bulwer Lytton: Rienzi. Ch. 4. If any one should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I feel it could no otherwise be expressed than by making answer, "Because it was he; because it was I." There is, beyond what I am able to say, I know not what inexplicable and inevitable power that brought on this union. 3341 Montaigne: Essays. Bk. i. Ch. 27. (Hazlitt, Trans.) What is it that love does to a woman? Without it she only sleeps; with it, alone, she lives. 3342 Ouida: Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos. Ariadne. Love is the eldest and noblest and mightiest of the gods, and the chiefest author and giver of virtue in life and of happiness after death. 3343 Plato: The Symposium. I. 475. (Jowett, Trans.) Love will make men dare to die for their beloved-love alone; and women as well as men. 3344 Plato: The Symposium. I. 473. (Jowett, Trans.) A heart can only be held by a heart, the fairest setting of the loveliest jewel. 3345 Richter: Lerana. Sixth Fragment. Ch. 3. Pure love cannot merely do all, but is all. Ch. 1. On Since in possessing you we possess all if we had nothing else, and in not possessing you we have nothing if we had all the rest, oh, my God. I will love you that I may possess you upon earth, and I will possess you that I may love you one day in heaven. 3347 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Lore, Friendship, Friends. No. 46. (Hapgood, Trans.) To love to know is human, to know how to love is divine. 3348 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Pt. x., lxxxix. (Hapgood, Translator.) Two souls and one flesh. What is love? 3349 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Love, Friendship, Friends. No. 31. (Hapgood, Trans.) Egotism erects its centre in itself: love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity. egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown, indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next. 3350 Schiller Essays, Esthetical and Philosophical Philosophical Letters. IV. Sacrifice. Love is at the same time the most generous and the most egotistical thing in nature; the most generous, because it receives nothing and gives all, - pure mind being only able to give and not receive; the most egotistical, for that which he seeks in the subject, that which he enjoys in it, is himself and never anything else. 3351 Schiller Essays, Esthetical and Philosophical. On Grace and Dignity. On Dignity. Orl. 3352 Ros. But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak ? Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much. Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. By heaven, I do love; and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be melancholy. 3353 Shakespeare: Love's Labor's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. He is far gone, far gone; and truly in my youth I suffered much extremity for love; very near this. 3354 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing old signs. He brushes his hat o' mornings; what should that bode? 3355 Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. I will not be sworn, but Love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. 3356 Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but love. 3357 Shakespeare: Love's Labor's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punished and cured, is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too. 3358 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. No sooner met but they looked, no sooner looked but they loved, no sooner loved but they sighed, no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason, no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy. 3359 Shakespeare: As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 2. Fal. Of what quality was your love then? Ford. Like a fair house built on another man's ground; so that I have lost my edifice by mistaking the place where I erected it. 3360 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 2. |