Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil. Goethe.

Love converts the hut into a palace of gold. Hölty.

Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when 10 it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence the expression of its yearning tenderness. Bovee.

Love delights to bring her best, / And where love is, that offering evermore is blest. Keble.

Love dies by satiety, and forgetfulness inters it. Du Cœur.

Love divine, all love excelling, / Joy of heaven to earth come down. Toplady.

Love does much, but money does more. Pr.

Love ends with hope: the sinking statesman's 15 door / Pours in the morning worshipper no more. Johnson.

Love ever flows downward. Quoted by Hare.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, / Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Pope.