In long-drawn systole and long-drawn diastole must the period of faith alternate with the period of denial; must the vernal growth, the summer luxuriance of all opinions, spiritual representations and creations, be followed by and again follow the autumnal decay, the winter dissolution. Carlyle.
In love all is risk. Goethe. 50
In love we are all fools alike. Gay.
In love we never think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. Hazlitt.
In loving thou dost well, in passion not, / Wherein true love consists not. Milton.
In magnis et voluisse sat est—In great things it is enough even to have willed. Propertius.
In maiden meditation, fancy-free. Mid. N.'s 55 Dream, ii. 1.
In manners tranquillity is the supreme power. Mme. de Maintenon.
In marriage, as in other things, contentment excels wealth. Molière.
In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best; in matters of prudence, last thoughts are best. Robert Hall.