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Literary history is the great morgue where all seek the dead ones whom they love, or to whom they are related. 3268 Heine: Scintillations. Excerpts. Art, Literature, Criticism.

Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged. 3269 Douglas Jerrold Specimens of Jerrold's Wit. Literary Men.

No literature is complete until the language in which it is written is dead.

3270

Longfellow: Kavanagh. Ch. 30. Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mould of countless generations (in nε qillwr yɛvin), and not from any top-dressing capriciously scattered over the surface at some master's bidding. Lowell: Among My Books. Spenser.

3271

The riches of scholarship, the benignities of literature, defy fortune and outlive calamity. They are beyond the reach of thief or moth or rust. As they cannot be inherited, so they cannot be alienated.

3272 Lowell: Address, Chelsea, Mass., Dec. 22, 1885. Books and Libraries.

A nation's literature is always the biography of its humanity. 3273

Robert Lord Lytton: Speeches of Edward Lord
Lytton. Prefatory Memoir.

Literature is, no doubt, a fine art, the finest of the arts; but it is also a practical art, and it is deplorable to think how much stout, instructive work might and ought to be done by people who, in dreaming of ideas in prose and verse beyond their attainment, end, like the poor Casaubon of fiction, in a little pamphlet on a particle, or else in mediocre poetry, or else in nothing.

3274

John Morley: Critical Miscellanies.
Martineau.

Harriet

The history of literature is the history of the human mind. It is, as compared with other histories, the intellectual as distinguished from the material, the informing spirit as compared with the outward and visible.

3275 William H. Prescott: Biographical and Critical Miscellanies. Chateaubriand's English Literature. The essay should be pure literature as the poem is pure literature.

3276

Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp.

of Essays.

We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.

On the Writing

3277 Sydney Smith: A Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith,

by Lady Holland. Ch. 2.

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who has descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills. 3278

Bernardin St. Pierre: Paul and Virginia.
(Helen Maria Williams, Translator.)

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.
3279

Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil.
I. An Exordial Essay.

Literature becomes free institutions. It is the graceful ornament of civil liberty, and a happy restraint on the asperities which political controversies sometimes occasion. 3280 Daniel Webster: Discourse, Plymouth, Dec. 22, 1820. First Settlement of New England.

LONDON.

London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day. 3281 Emerson: English Traits. Result.

LONELINESS.

The best loneliness is when no human eye has rested on our face for a whole day.

3282 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.)

LOSS.

No man can lose what he never had.

3283 Izaak Walton: The Complete Angler. Pt. i. Ch. 5.

LOVE-see Amiability, Character, Companionship,
Cupid, Curiosity, Death, Education, Flirtation.
Friendship, Imagination, Jealousy, Knowledge,
Liberty, Lovers, Music, Reason, Self-forgetfulness,
Smiles, Sympathy, Time, Venus, Wisdom, Woman.
Love you none? Then you are lost to love.
A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk.
The Mysteries.

3284

V. Habits

The more a man loves, the more he suffers. The sum of possible grief for each soul is in proportion to its degree of perfection.

3285 Amiel: Journal. Dec. 26, 1868. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.)

True love is that which ennobles the personality, fortifies the heart, and sanctifies the existence. And the being we love must not be mysterious and sphinx-like, but clear and impid as a diamond; so that admiration and attachment may grow with knowledge.

3286 Amiel: Journal. Dec. 28, 1880. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.)

Love cannot endure indifference.

It needs to be wanted.

Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

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Pulpit.

Love is more just than justice. 3289

Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth

Love is ownership. 3290

Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

3291 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit.

Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill, the first small fountain. Not until you have gone through the rocky gorges, and not lost the stream; not until you have gone through the meadow, and the stream has widened and deepened until fleets could ride on its bosom; not until beyond the meadow you have come to the unfathomable ocean, and poured your treasures into its depths, - not until then can you know what love is.

3292 Henry Ward Beecher: Sermons. Plymouth Pulpit. Second Series. The Right and the Wrong Way of Giving Pleasure.

Love is the wine of existence.

3293

Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth

No man can afford to

than faith, hope, love,

is love.

3294

Pulpit.

invest his being in anything lower these three, the greatest of which

Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth
Pulpit.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge.

3295 Carlyle: Essays. Death of Goethe. (New Monthly Magazine, No. cxxxviii., 1832.)

He who loves so far serves.

3296

William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Love. Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

3297

William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Love.

Love is the parent of thought.

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William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Love.

Love will ever play a great part in human life to the end of time. It will be an immense element in its happiness, perhaps a still greater one in its sorrows, its disasters, its tragedies. It is still an immense power in shaping and coloring it, both in fiction and in reality; in the family, in the romance, in the fatalities and the prosaic ruin of vulgar fact.

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R. W. Church: Edmund Spenser. Ch. 5. (English Men of Letters.)

Love, like death, a universal leveller of mankind. 3300 Congreve: The Double-Dealer. Act ii. Sc. 8. Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.

3301

Congreve: The Double-Dealer.

Act iv. Sc. 17.

Men love at first, and most warmly; women love last and longest. This is natural enough, for nature makes women to be won, and men to win. Men are the active, positive force, and therefore they are more ardent and demon-trative.

3302 George William Curtis: Prue and I. VII. Our Cousin, the Curate.

Love, however, must not (as often imagined) pass for the sole emotion which evinces heart.

3303 George Darley: Works of Beaumont and Fletcher. Introduction.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence and its only end.

3304 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Sybil. Bk. v. Ch. 4. Our love is in wrought in our enthusiasm as electricity is in wrought in the air, exalting its power by a subtle presence. 3305 George Eliot: Adam Bede. Ch. 33.

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

3306

Emerson Essays. Of Friendship. Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love.

3307 Emerson: Society and Solitude.

Domestic Life.

Let no man think he is loved by any man when he loves

no man.

3308 Epictetus: Fragments.

CLVI. (Long, Trans.)

I will take heed both of a speedy friend and a slow enemy. Love is never lasting which flames before it burns; and hate, like wetted coals, throws a fiercer heat when fire gets the mastery. As quick wits have seldom sound judgments, which should make them continue, so friendship kindled suddenly is rarely found to consist with the durability of affection. Enduring love is ever built on virtue, which no man can see

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
Enemy, when most Dangerous.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then,
But there's no love lost between us.

to be sure.

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Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer. Act iv. Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. 3311 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
Spirits.

To be wholly loved with the whole heart, one must be suffering. Pity is the last consecration of love, is, perhaps, love itself. Heine: Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos. TravelPictures. Italy.

3316

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.

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