Love Quotes — page 89

they must cease to exaggerate the exaggerations of our enemies; and represent the colored man rather as he is

Surely the King of Love needed no herald when Himself was here.

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Oh! why should woman ever love, Trusting to one false star above; And fling her little chance away Of sunshine for its treacherous ray.

To what a cumbersome unwieldiness And burdenous corpulence my love had grown, But that I did, to make it less, And keep it in proportion, Give it a diet, made it feed upon That which love worst endures, discretion.

Our courteous Lord willeth not that His servants despair, for often nor for grievous falling: for our falling hindereth not Him to love us. Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.

Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joys inclined, Lawless, winged, and unconfined, And breaks all chains from every mind.

Love is enough: have no thought for to-morrow If ye lie down this even in rest from your pain, Ye who have paid for your bliss with great sorrow...

Though the dream of love may tire, In the ages long agone There were ruby hearts of fire — Ah, the daughters of the dawn!

In love all the contradictions of existence merge themselves and are lost. Only in love are unity and duality not at variance.

So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade, All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night.

When they have but looked upon their images-- Would none had ever loved but you and I!

Friendship is Love without wings.

Death will come when thou art dead, Soon, too soon — Sleep will come when thou art fled; Of neither would I ask the boon I ask of thee, beloved Night — Swift be thine approaching flight,

Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

Time found our tired love sleeping, And kissed away his breath; But what should we do weeping, Though light love sleep to death? We have drained his lips at leisure, Till there's not left to drain

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.

Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings — much harder than to say something fine about them which is …

Where love could walk with banish'd Hope no more.

If thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only.

Friends humor and flatter us, they steal our time, they encourage our love of ease, they make us content with ourselves, they are the foes of our virtue and our glory.

To be wise and eke to love, Is graunted scarce to God above.

No, the heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sun-flower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose.