Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

'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.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over read more

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.

When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
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When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them read more

Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.

Love is a spirit of all compact of fire.