Philip Sidney - Love Quotes

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Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame,
Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee;
Thine eyes my pride, thy lips mine history:
If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.

Philip Sidney
Dumb swans, not chattering pies, do lovers prove;
They love indeed who quake to say they love.

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My true-love hath my heart, and I have his,
By just exchange one for the other given:
I hold his dear, and mine he cannot miss,
There never was a better bargain driven.

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Ring out your bells! Let mourning shows be spread! For Love is dead.

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Leave me, O Love which reachest but to dust,
And thou, my mind, aspire to higher things;
Grow rich in that which never taketh rust;
Whatever fades, but fading pleasure brings.

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Those lovers scorn whom that love doth possess?
Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?

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Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.

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Our poor eyes were so enriched as to behold, and our low hearts so exalted as to love, a maid who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can show is her beauty, so the least thing that may be praised in her is her beauty.

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He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

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Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

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