Edward Young - Love Quotes

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To know the world, not love her, is thy point,
She gives but little, nor that little, long.

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He weeps! the falling drop puts out the sun; He sighs! the sigh earth's deep foundation shakes. If in His love so terrible, what then His wrath inflamed?

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Woes cluster. Rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other's heel.

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Lovely in death the beauteous ruin lay;
And if in death still lovely, lovelier there;
Far lovelier! pity swells the tide of love.

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As Love alone can exquisitely bless,
Love only feels the marvellous of pain;
Opens new veins of torture in the foul,
And wakes the nerve where agonies are born.

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Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

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The love of praise, howe'er concealed by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

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But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

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Old men love novelties; the last arriv'd Still pleases best; the youngest steals their smiles.

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The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

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I've known my lady (for she loves a tune) For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, A midnight park is sov'reign for a cold.

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