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 rules without law. It. Pr.

Love sees what no eye sees; hears what no ear hears; and what never rose in the heart of man love prepares for its object. Lavater.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, / And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. Pope.

Love should have some rest and pleasure in 25 himself, / Not ever be too curious for a boon, / Too prurient for a proof against the grain / Of him ye say ye love. Tennyson.

Love should not be all on one side. Pr.

Love shows, even to the dullest, the possibilities of the human race. Helps.

Love silence rather than speech in these tragic days, when for very speaking the voice of man has fallen inarticulate to man. Carlyle.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. Twelfth Night, iii. 1.

Love strikes one hour—love. Those never 30 loved / Who dream that they loved once. Elizabeth B. Browning.

Love that can flow, and can admit increase, / Admits as well an ebb, and may grow less. Suckling.