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's of a strangely open simple kind, / And thinks none sees it 'cause itself is blind. Cowley.

Love's of itself too sweet; the best of all / Is when love's honey has a dash of gall. Herrick.

Love's plant must be watered with tears and 10 tended with care. Dan. Pr.

Love's reasons without reason. Cymbeline, iv. 2.

Love's sweetest meanings are unspoken; the full heart knows no rhetoric of words, and resorts to the pantomime of sighs and glances. Bovee.

Love's the noblest frailty of the mind. Dryden.

Love's true function in the world is as the regenerator and restorer of social life, the reconciler and uniter of living men. Ed.

Love's voice doth sing as sweetly in a beggar 15 as a king. Decker.

Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation. Goldsmith.

Loveliness does more than destroy ugliness; it destroys matter. A mere touch of it in a room, in a street, even on a door-knocker, is a spiritual force. Prof. Drummond.