Lope de Vega Quotes

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Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement.

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Lone I muse but feel not lonely,
Covert solitude's my lore;
For my company I only
Want my thoughts and nothing more.

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Lord, what am I, that, with unceasing care,
Thou didst seek after me, — that Thou didst wait,
Wet with unhealthy dews, before my gate,
And pass the gloomy nights of winter there?

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In ancient days they said truth had fled to heaven: attacked on every side, it's not been heard of since. We live in different ages, non-Spaniards and ourselves: they in the age of silver, we in the age of brass.

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But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous.

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And what shall I say of the poets? Oh, this poor century of ours! In the coming year many of them will make their start, but not one of them is as bad as Cervantes, or idiotic enough to praise Don Quixote.

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To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit,
To drink poison as if it were a soothing liquor,
To disregard gain and delight in being injured.
To believe that heaven can lie contained in hell;
To devote your life and soul to being disillusioned;
This is love; whoever has tasted it, knows.

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Since after all, it is the crowd who pays,
Why not content them when you write your plays?

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Love is a mighty engineer, Not Archimedes' skill could add One jot or title to the power Of the machines that Love controls.

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