in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies,
Let us all ring fancy's knell
I'll begin it, Ding, dong, bell.
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It is engender'd in the eyes,
With gazing fed; and fancy dies
In the cradle where it lies,
Let us all ring fancy's knell
I'll begin it, Ding, dong, bell.
Love is life and life has something immoral.
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; —in all but the singularly unfortunate the integral parts that comprise the sum total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered. The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions: the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
When newly, in the bottom of a heart, a loving affection is born, with it both languid and tired in one's breast a desire of death is felt: how I know not, but of true and powerful love this is the first effect.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
Who knows if I love her? It's a doubt that went along me for all the life and today I can think that the love accompanied by a lot of doubts is true love.
For all, even the luckiest, love is necessary to begin with a defeat.
But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised
And mine that I was proud on, mine so much
That I myself was to myself not mine.
If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vexed, a sea nourished with loving tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall, and a preserving sweet.