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01c. 1608 AD

No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.

Robert Burton / quote

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02c. 1608 AD

To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.

Robert Burton / quote

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03Undated

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity 's the straightest.

Beaumont And Fletcher / quote

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04c. 1614 AD

Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer Love that run away.

Thomas Carew / quote

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05c. 1632 AD

You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.

Robert Herrick / quote

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06c. 1640 AD

Love in your hearts as idly burns As fire in antique Roman urns.

Samuel Butler / quote

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07c. 1640 AD

Love is a boy by poets styl'd; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Samuel Butler / quote

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08c. 1646 AD

For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.

Edmund Waller / quote

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09c. 1646 AD

Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller / quote

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10c. 1641 AD

See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.

John Milton / quote

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11c. 1641 AD

Hail wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring.

John Milton / quote

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12c. 1641 AD

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.

John Milton / quote

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13c. 1641 AD

With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

John Milton / quote

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14c. 1641 AD

Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

John Milton / quote

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15c. 1641 AD

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st Live well: how long or short permit to heaven.

John Milton / quote

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16c. 1641 AD

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd.

John Milton / quote

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17c. 1641 AD

It is for homely features to keep home,— They had their name thence; coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool. What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that, Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton / quote

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18c. 1638 AD

I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more.

Richard Lovelace / quote

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19c. 1638 AD

Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace / quote

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20c. 1642 AD

A mighty pain to love it is, And 't is a pain that pain to miss; But of all pains, the greatest pain It is to love, but love in vain.

Abraham Cowley / quote

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21c. 1666 AD

For pity melts the mind to love.

John Dryden / quote

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22c. 1666 AD

Fool, not to know that love endures no tie, And Jove but laughs at lovers' perjury.

John Dryden / quote

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23c. 1666 AD

Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet.

John Dryden / quote

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24c. 1666 AD

When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind!

John Dryden / quote

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