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Adieu Love, adieu Love, untrue Love,
(Unknown. The Unfaithful Shepherdess (l. 7). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Romeo, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 2, l. 156-7.
On leaving Juliet.)
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
(William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), British author. Pendennis, ch. 6 (1848-1850).)
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Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
(Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), British novelist. Third edition, London (1751). Belford, in Clarissa, vol. 4, p. 348, AMS Press (1990).)
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Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
She slowed to sigh, in that long interval.
(Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Dream (l. 17-18). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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the churn of stale words in the heart again
love love love thud of the old plunger
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. "Cascando," in Collected Poems in English and French, p. 30, Grove Press (1984).)
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But to see her, was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
(Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. Ae Fond Kiss (l. 11-12). . .
New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse, The. Roger Lonsdale, ed. (1984) Oxford University Press.)
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Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
(Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599), British poet. Iambicum Trimetrum (l. 10-12). . .
The Complete Poetical Works of Spenser. R. E. Neil Dodge, ed. (1936) Houghton Mifflin.)
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To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
(Thomas Traherne (1636-1674), British clergyman, poet, mystic. (First published 1908). "Fourth Century," no. 69, Centuries (written c. 1672).)
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Love was before the light began,
When light if over,love shall be
(Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936) Reynal & Hitchcock.)
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