IN PRAISE OF LOVE
Love is not to be purchased,
and affection has no price.
Saint Jerome
For mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face,
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
William Blake
"The Divine Image"
Love sought is good, but giv'n unsought is
better.
William Shakespeare
Twelth-Night
Life has taught us that love does
not consist in gazing at each other
but in looking ouward together in
the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry
Wind, Sand, and Stars
All for love, and nothing for reward.
Edmund Spencer
The Faerie Queene
By heaven, I do love,
and it hath taught me to rime,
and to be melancholy.
William Shakespeare
Love's Labour's Lost
There is only one happiness in life,
to love and be loved.
George Sand
Letter to Lina Calamatta
Pleasure and love are the pinions
of great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iphigenia in Tauris
To live is like to love-all reason is against
it,
and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
Life and Love
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