It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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The History of Pendennis
by
William Makepeace Thackeray
Maggie said that love was the flower of life, and blossomed unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it was found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
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The Rainbow
by
D. H. Lawrence
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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Henrietta Temple
by
Benjamin Disraeli
Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
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The Little Minister
by
James M. Barrie
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
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Little Men
by
Louisa May Alcott
"Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
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Little Women
by
Louisa May Alcott
Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved-to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses.
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The Beautiful and Damned
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day,
Which now shows all the beauty of the sun,
And by an by a cloud takes all away!
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Two Gentlemen of Verona
by
William Shakespeare
"A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms."
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The Hand of Ethelberta
by
Thomas Hardy
There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.
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Villette
by
Charlotte Bronte