Walter Raleigh - Love Quotes

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Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.

Walter Raleigh
Like to an hermit poor in place obscure,
I mean to spend my days of endless doubt,
To wail such woes as time cannot recure,
Where none but Love shall ever find me out.

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Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, Deserveth double pity.

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But true love is a durable fire,
In the mind ever burning,
Never sick, never old, never dead,
From itself never turning.

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Silence in love betrays more woe - Than words though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, may challenge double pity.

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If all the world and love were young,
And truth in every shepherd's tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee, and be thy love.

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Tell zeal it wants devotion;
Tell love it is but lust;
Tell time it metes but motion;
Tell flesh it is but dust.

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Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf,
And can be bought with nothing but with self.

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Now what is love? I pray thee, tell.
It is that fountain and that well,
Where pleasure and repentance dwell.

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As you came from the holy land
Of Walsinghame,
Met you not with my true love
By the way as you came?

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