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a person is once heartily in Love, the little faults and caprices of his Mistress, the jealousies and quarrels to which that Commerce is so subject, however unpleasant they be, and rather connected with Anger and Hatred, are yet to be found, in many instances, to give additional force to the prevailing Passion.

Love. Middleton.

THE treasures of the deep are not so precious
As are the conceal'd Comforts of a man

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DIDST thou but know the kindle fire with snow,

IDST thou but know the inly touch of Love,

As seek to quench the fire of Love with words.
I do not seek to quench your Love's hot fire,
But qualify the Fire's extreme rage,

Lest it should burn above the bounds of reason.
The more thou dam'st it up, the more it burns;
The current that with gentle murmur glides,

Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage;
But, when his fair course is not hindered,

He makes sweet Music with the enamel'd stones,
Giving a gentle Kiss to every sedge

He overtaketh in his pilgrimage;

And so by many winding nooks he strays,

With willing sport, to the wild Ocean.

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LOVE, that has nothing but Beauty to keep it in good

health, is short-lived.

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No Cord or Cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast,

as Love can do with only a single Thread.

Lave. Goldsmith.

LOVE, when founded in the Heart, will show itself in a thousand unpremeditated sallies of Fondness; but every cool deliberate exhibition of the Passions only argues little understanding or great Insincerity.

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SMILES from reason flow, to Brutes denied,
And are of Love the food.

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FFECTIONS, like the Conscience, are rather to be led than drawn; and 'tis to be feared, they that marry where they do not love, will love where they do not

marry.

Lobe.

Shakespeare.

SPIRIT of Love, how quick and fresh art thou!
That notwithstanding thy capacity,

Receiveth as the Sea; nought enters there,

Of what validity and pitch soe'er,

But falls into abatement and low price,

Even in a minute! so full of Shapes is Fancy,
That it alone is high-fantastical.

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LET Grace and Goodness be the principal loadstone of

thy Affections. For Love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true Virtue, will always continue.

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LET me but bear your Love, I'll bear your Cares.

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is as false to play with Fire as to dally with Gallantry.

for that reason must by a Woman be kept at such a distance, that she may not be within the danger of doing the most usual thing in the world, which is conspiring against herself: else the humble Gallant, who is only admitted as a trophy, very often becometh the conqueror; he putteth on the style of Victory, and from an admirer groweth into a Master, for so he may be called from the moment he is in possession.

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Love. Mrs. Cowley.

HE woman that has not touched the Heart of a man before he leads her to the Altar, has scarcely a chance to charm it, when Possession and Security turn their powerful arms against her.

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WHERE there exists the united in Death than sepa

HERE there exists the most ardent and true Love,

rated in Life.

Love. Colton.

CORPOREAL charms may indeed gain admirers, but

there must be mental ones to retain them; and Horace had a delicate feeling of this, when he refused to restrict the Pleasures of the Lover merely to his eyes, but added also those of the Ear.

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HERE Love has once obtained influence, any Seasoning, I believe, will please.

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OVE can be founded upon Nature only, or the appearance of it, for this reason; however a peruke may tend to soften the human features, it can very seldom make amends for the mixture of Artifice which it discovers.

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OVE sees what no eye sees; Love hears what no ear

Lovers, and what never rose in the heart of man Love

prepares for its object.

Love.

Shakespeare.

SHE bids you

All on the wanton Rushes lay you down,
And rest your gentle Head upon her lap,
And she will sing the song that pleaseth you,
And on your eyelids crown the God of sleep,
Charming your Blood with pleasing heaviness;
Making such diff'rence betwixt wake and sleep,
As is the diff'rence betwixt day and night,
The hour before the heav'nly-harness'd team
Begins his Golden progress in the east.

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W we suceeding inclinations are less invo

luntary.

Love. Colton.

a dangerous experiment to call in Gratitude as

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always pays, obligation never; and the moment it becomes lukewarm and evanescent, reminiscences on the score of Gratitude serve only to smother the flame.

Love.

Shakespeare.

IT were all one

That I should love a bright partic'lar Star,
And think to wed it; he is so above me :
In his bright Radiance and collateral light
Must I be comforted, not in his sphere.
Th' ambition in my Love thus plagues itself;
The hind, that would be mated by the Lion,
Must die for Love.

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OVE is an alliance of Friendship and of Lust; if the

refined, but if the latter, gross and sensual.

Love. Shakespeare.

music be the food of Love, play on:

I Give in excess of it; that, surfeiting,

The appetite may sicken, and so die.-
That strain again; it had a dying fall:
O, it came o'er my Ear like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving Odour.

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TELL this youth what 'tis to Love.—
It is to be all made of Sighs and Tears;
It is to be all made of Faith and Service :-

It is to be all made of Fantasy,

All made of Passion, and all made of wishes;
All Adoration, Duty, and Observance,

All Humbleness, all Patience and Impatience,
All Purity, all Trial, all Observance.

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LEAVE you your power to draw,

And I shall have no Power to follow you.

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IDICULE, perhaps, is a better expedient against

Hudibras and Don Quixote may be as effectual to cure the extravagancies of this Passion, as any one of the old philosophers.

Love. — Addison.

HE pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that in courtship, provided

sincere, and the party beloved kind with Discretion. Love, Desire, Hope, all the pleasing motions of the Soul, rise in the pursuit.

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Love. Hawkesworth.

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S Love without Esteem is volatile and capricious; Esteem without Love is languid and cold.

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F ever (as that ever may be near)

If you meet in some fresh cheek the power of Fancy,

Then shall you know the Wounds invisible
That Love's keen Arrows make.

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UE Love can no more be diminished by showers of evil than Flowers are marred by timely Rains.

Love. - Euripides.

THAT Love alone, which Virtue's laws controul,
Deserves reception in the human Soul.

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OVE may exist without Jealousy, although this is rare; but Jealousy may exist without Love, and this

is common.

Love.

Shakespeare.

O YOU leaden messengers,

That ride upon the violent speed of Fire,

Fly with false aim: move the still-piercing air,
That sings with piercing, do not touch my Lord!

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E always dread the sight of the person we Love when we have been coquetting elsewhere.

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