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 the good and forgive the bad. Gael. Pr.

Love, the last relay and ultimate outpost of eternity. D. G. Rossetti.

Love the sense of right and wrong confounds; / Strong love and proud ambition have no bounds. Dryden.

Love thinks nae ill, envy speaks nae gude. 35 Sc. Pr.

Love thyself, and many will hate thee. Anon.

Love to a yielding heart is a king, but to a resisting is a tyrant. Sidney.

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. Carlyle.

Love too late can never glow. Keble.

Love took up the harp of life, and smote on all 40 the chords with might; / Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, passed in music out of sight. Tennyson.

Love-verses, writ without any real passion, are the most nauseous of all conceits. Shenstone.