John Gay - Love Quotes

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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

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Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.

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Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us,
And fires us
With courage, love and joy.
Women and wine should life employ.
Is there ought else on earth desirous?

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Youth's the season made for joys,
Love is then our duty.

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How happy I am, if you say this from your heart! For I love thee so, that I could sooner bear to see thee hang'd than in the Arms of another.

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If love be not his Guide,
He never will come back!

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Macheath: And I would love you all the day,
Polly: Every night would kiss and play,
Macheath: If with me you'd fondly stray
Polly: Over the hills and far away.

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Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live.

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One common fate we both must prove; You die with envy, I with love.

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What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

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Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

John Gay