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The falling-out of lovers true is a renewing may be of love. (1) Still it is not to be recommended. In fact, it might be said that
Every falling-out of lovers true is a nail in love's coffin. Yet,
A blessing it is that in love we remember the sweet rather than the bitter. For
Love was ever bitter-sweet (2).
(1) "Amanitum irae amoris integratis est." —Terrence, Andria, III, 23.
(2) But I supposed innumerable people have said this before. No matter.
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The heart of a lover is like that bottom of a well: all the beauties of the starry heavens are revealed in it; but when it sheds the light of its countenance upon it, all else is obliterated.
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