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Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body.
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from read more
A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love.
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they read more
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third read more
'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and read more
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
