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  • Is it so small a thing To have enjoyed the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done.

    - Matthew Arnold
      'Empedocles on Etna', act1, sc.2, l.397^400.

  • Sero te amavi, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova, sero te amavi! Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new: late have I loved you.

    -St Augustine originally Aurelius Augustinus
    AD 397  Confessions, bk.10, ch.27.

  • I loved thee once; I'll love no more Thine be the grief as is the blame; Thou art not what thou wast before, What reason I should be the same?

    - Sir Robert Aytoun
    'To an Inconstant Mistress', stanza1.

  • Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Luke 7:47.

  • Dante, who loved well because he hated, Hated wickedness that hinders loving.

    - Robert Browning
      Men and Women,'One Word More. To E.B.B.', stanza 5.

  • We loved, sirused to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was But then, how it was sweet!

    - Robert Browning
      Dramatis Personae,'Confessions', stanza 9.

  • Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly! Never metor never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

    - Robert Burns
      'Ae Fond Kiss', stanza 4.

  • What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

    -Rochdale
    ^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 2, stanza 98.

  • And hark! the Nightingale begins its song, 'Most musical, most melancholy' bird! A melancholy bird?†his song Should make all Nature lovelier, and itself Be loved like Nature!

    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
      'The Nightingale'.

  • I loved Estella† I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^1 Great Expectations, ch.29.

  • I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?

    -John Donne
    c.1595^1605  'The Good Morrow', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

  • Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say?

    -John Donne
    c.1595^1605  'Woman's Constancy', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

  • Twice or thrice had I loved thee, Before I knew thy face or name; So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame Angels affect us oft, and worshipped be; Still when, to where thou wert, I came, Some lovely glorious nothing did I see.

    -John Donne
    c.1595^1605  'Air and  Angels', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

  •    But she, good sir, Did not prefer You, for that I was ranging; But for that she Found faith in me And she loved to be changing.

    - Michael Drayton
      Poems Lyrick and Pastorall,'To His Rival'.

  • For truth has such a face and such a mien As to be loved needs only to be seen.

    -John Dryden
      The Hind and the Panther, pt.1, l.33^4.

  • I was never more hated than when Itried to be honest† On the other hand,I've never been more loved and appreciated than when Itried to'justify'and affirm someone's mistaken beliefs; or when I've tried to give my friendstheincorrect, absurd answersthey wishedtohear.

    - RalphWaldo Ellison
      Invisible Man, epilogue.

  • A woman is beautiful only when she is loved.

    -JuliusJ Epstein
      Mr Skeffington (with Philip Epstein).

  • I didn't come to Washington to be loved and I haven't been disappointed.

    - Phil (William Philip) Gramm
      In NPR broadcast, 24 Feb.

  • Dilexi iustitiam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio. I have loved righteousness and hated iniquity, and therefore I die in exile.

    -Pope Gregory VII also known as Hildebrand
      Last words. Quoted in Christopher Brooke Europe in the Central Middle Ages 962^1154 (1964), ch.15.

  • I remember that the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,Would he had blotted a thousand: which they thought a malevolent speech†[but] I loved themanand do honour hismemory, on thisside idolatry, as much as any.

    - Ben Jonson
    Timber: or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter (published 1640).

  • To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.

    - George MacDonald
    The Marquis of Lossie (published1906).

  • Nasce da questo una disputa: s'egli e'   meglio essere amato che temuto, o e'   converso. Rispondesi che si vorebbe essere l'uno e l'altro; ma perche   egli e'   difficile accozzarli insieme, e'   molto pi  u' sicuro essere temuto che amato, quando si abbia a mancare dell'uno de'due. Thisleadstoa debate: isit better to be loved thanfeared, or the reverse? The answer is that it is desirable to be both, but because it is difficult to join them together, it is much safer fora prince to be feared than loved, if he isto fail in one of the two.

    - Niccolo'   di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
      Il Principe, ch.8 (translated by Alan Gilbert).

  • It lies not in our power to love, or hate, For will in us is overruled by fate. When two are stripped, lo ere the course begin We wish that one should lose, the other win; And one especially do we affect Of two gold ingots, like in each respect. The reason no man knows, let it suffice, What we behold is censured by our eyes. Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

    - Christopher Marlowe
      Hero and Leander (published1598), pt.1, l.167^76.

  • There's scarce a thing but is both loved and loathed.

    -Thomas Middleton
      The Changeling (with William Rowley), act1, sc.1.

  • Hail, wedded love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. 583

    -John Milton
      Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.750^2.

  • Togrowolder istorealizetheuniverseisCopernican, not Ptolemaic, and that self and the loved one do not form the epicentre of the solar system.

    - Edward O Phillips
      Sunday Best.

  • Ah! je l'ai trop aime   pour ne le point ha|«r ! Oh! I loved him too much not to hate him now!

    -Jean Racine
      Andromaque, act 2, sc.1.

  • J'aimais jusqu'a'   ses pleurs que je faisais couler. I loved even the tears which I made her cry.

    -Jean Racine
      Britannicus, act 2, sc.2.

  • The perpetual hunger to be beautifuland thatthirsttobe loved which is the real curse of Eve.

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      The Left Bank,'Illusion'.

  • Alas! that all we loved of him should be, But for our grief, as if it had not been, And grief itself be mortal!

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Adonais, stanza 21.

  •    It requires less skill to love than to be loved.

    - Robin Skelton
    A Devious Dictionary.

  • Out upon it! I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

    - SirJohn Suckling
      'Out Upon It!'

  • I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

    -Tennyson
      In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 27, l.13^16.

  • For the life in them he loved most living things, But a tree chiefly.

    - (Philip) Edward Thomas
      'Bob's Lane'.

  • When you are old and greyand full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly how Love fled And paced among the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.

    -W(illiam) B(utler) Yeats
      'WhenYou Are Old', complete poem. Collected in The Rose (1893).

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