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LOVE-Ilicit.

Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. Bacon.

LOVE-Immortality of.

Solid love, whose root is virtue, can no more die than virtue itself. Erasmus.

They sin who tell us love can die;
With life all other passions fly,-
All others are but vanity.

In heaven ambition cannot dwell,
Nor avarice in the vaults of hell;
Farthly, these passions of the earth,
They perish where they had their birth;
But love is indestructible.

Its holy flame for ever burneth ;

From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.
Too oft on earth a troubled guest,
At times deceived, at times oppressed,
It here is tried and purified,

Then hath in heaven its perfect rest.

It soweth here with toil and care,

In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou mayst ascend ;

Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found. Milton.

Love is the purification of the heart from self; it strengthens and ennobles the character, gives a higher motive and a nobler aim to every action of life, and makes both man and woman stroug, noble, and courageous; and the power to love truly and devotedly is the noblest gift with which a human being can be endowed; but it is a sacred fire that must not be burnt to idols. Miss Jewsbury.

LOVE-Transforming Influence of.

O, how beautiful it is to love! Even thou that sneerest and laughest in cold indifference or scorn if others are near thee, thou, too, must acknowledge its truth when thou art alone, and confess that a foolish world is prone to laugh in public at what in private it reveres as one of the highest impulses of our Longfellow.

But the harvest-time of love is there. Southey. nature; namely, love.

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By love's delightful influence the attack of El-humour is resisted, the violence of our passions abated, the bitter cup of affliction sweetened, all the injuries of the world alleviated, and the sweetest flowers plentifully strewed along the most thorny paths of life. Zimmerman.

LOVE-Engobling Influence of.
Such is the power of that sweet passion,
That it all sordid baseness doth expel,
And the refined mind doth newly fashion
Unto a fairer form, which now doth dwell
In his high thought, and would itself excel;
Which he, beholding still with constant sight,
Admires the mirror of so heavenly light.

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Good love, howe'er ill-placed

Is better for a man's soul in the end
Than if he loved ill what deserves love well.
A pagan, kissing, for a step of Pan,
The wild-goat's hoof-print on the loamy down,
Exceeds our modern thinker who turns back
The strata-granite, limestone, coal, and clay,
Concluding coldly with, "Here's law! Where's
God?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

LOVE-Inspiration of.

Love various minds does variously inspire:
He stirs in gentle natures gentle fire,
Like that of incense on the altar laid;
But raging flames tempestuous souls invade,-
A fire, which every windy passion blows;
With pride it mounts, and with revenge it
glows.
Dryden.

LOVE-Intenseness of

Love is the great instrument of nature, the bond and cement of society, the spirit and spring of the universe. Love is such an affection as cannot so properly be said to be in the soul, as the soul to be in that; it is the whole man wrapt up into one desire. South.

LOVE-Joys of.

Keen are the pangs

Of hapless love and passion unapproved;
But where consenting wishes meet, and vows

| Reciprocally breathed confirm the tie,

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LOVE-Marrying for.

Addison.

Blanchard.

LOVE.

shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy. Washington Irving.

The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength, as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth; is the blessed tie whose value we feel in the cradle, and whose loss we lament on the verge of the very grave, where our mother moulders in dust and ashes. In all our trials, amid all our afflictions, she is stil by our side if we sin, she reproves more in sorrow than in anger; nor can she tear us from her bosom, nor forget we are her child.

Did.

There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son, that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory in his fame, and exult in his prosperity; and if adversity overtake him, he will be the dearer to her by misfortune; and if disgrace settle upon his name, she will still love and cherish

Never marry but for love; but see that thou him; and if all the world beside cast him off.

lovest what is lovely.

LOVE-Maternal.

A mother's love!

If there be one thing pure,

Where all beside is sullied;

That can endure,

Penn.

When all else pass away;
If there be aught
Surpassing human deed, or word, or thought,
It is a mother's love!

Marchioness de Spadara.

The love of a mother is never exhausted, it never changes, it never tires. A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful

she will be all the world to him.

Ibid.

Observe how soon, and to what a degree, this influence begins to operate! Her first ministration for her infant is to enter, as it were, the valley of the shadow of death, and win its life at the peril of her own! How different must an affection thus founded be from all others! As if to deepen its power, & season of languor ensues, when she is comparatively alone with her infant, and with Hin who gave it, cultivating an acquaintance with a new being, and through a new channel, with the greatest of all beings. Is she not also her self an image of His goodness, while she cherishes in her bosom the young life that He laid there? A love, whose root is in death, whose fruit must be in eternity, has taken possession of her. No wonder that its effects are obvious and great. Mrs. Sigourney.

O lord, my boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the word! My widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure!

Shakspeare.

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LOVE-Maternal.

There is in all this cold and hollow world, no fount Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within A mother's heart. It is but pride wherewith, To his fair eye the father's eye doth turn, Watching his growth. Aye, on the babe he looks, The bright glad creature springing in his path, But as the heir of his great name, --the young And stately tree, whose rising strength ere long Shall bear his trophies well. And this is love! This is man's love! What marvel? you ne'er made Your breast the pillow of his infancy;

While to the fulness of your heart's glad heavings,

His fair cheek rose and fell, and his bright hair Wared softly to your breath! You ne'er kept watch

Beside him till the last pale star had set,

And morn, all dazzling, as in triumph, broke On your dim weary eye; not yours the face Which early faded through fond care for him, Hung o'er his sleep, and duly as heaven's light, Was there to greet his wakening! You ne'er smoothed

His couch, ne'er sung him to his rosy rest, | Caught his least whisper, when his voice from

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LOVE-Omnipresence of.

Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward. Love is our highest word, and the synonyme of God. Every promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments; each of its joys ripens into a new want. Nature, uncontainable, flowing, forelooking, in the first sentiment of kindness, anticipates already a benevolence which shall lose all particular regards in its general light. The introduction to this felicity is in a private and tender relation of one to one, which is the enchantment of human life; which, like a certain divine rage and enthusiasm, seizes on man at one period, and works a revolution in his mind and body; unites him to his race, pledges him to the domestic and civil relations, carries him with new sympathy into nature, enhances the power of the senses, opens the imagination, adds to his character heroic and sacred attributes, establishes marriage, and gives permanence to human society.

LOVE at Parting.

Emerson.

The consciousness of being loved softens the keenest pang, even at the moment of parting; yea, even the eternal farewell is robbed of half of its bitterness, when uttered in accents that Addison. breathe love to the last sigh.

LOVE-Passion of.

The passion of love generally appears to every body but the man who feels it entirely disproportionate to the value of the object; and though love is pardoned in a certain age, because we know it is natural, having violently seized the imagination, yet it is always laughed at, because we cannot enter into it; and all serious and strong expressions of it appear ridiculous to a third person; and

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Why have I been born with all these warm affections these ardent longings after what is good, if they lead only to sorrow and disappointment? I would love some one-love him once, and for ever-devote myself to him alone-live for him-die for him-exist alone in him! But, alas in all this wide world there is none to love me as I would be lovednone whom I may love as I am capable of loving! How empty, how desolate seems the world about me! Why has Heaven given me these affections, only to fall and fade?

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Oh, the love of woman-the love of woman! How high will it not rise! and to what lowly depths will it not stoop! How many injuries will it not forgive! What obstacle will it not overcome, and what sacrifices will it not make rather than give up the being upon which it has been once wholly and truthfully fixed! Perennial of life, which grows up under every climate, how small would the sum of man's happiness be without thee! No coldness, DO neglect, no harshness, no cruelty, can extinguish thee ! Like the fabled lamp in the sepulchre. thou sheddest thy pure light in the humar heart, when everything around thee there is dead for ever! Carleton.

LOVE-Wonders of.

Almighty love! what wonders are not thine!
Soon as thy influence breathes upon the soul
By thee, the haughty bend the suppliant
knee-

By thee, the hand of avarice is open'd
Into profusion; by thy power the heart
Of cruelty is melted into softness;
The rude grow tender, and the fearful bold.
Paterson
LOVE-Wounded.

Had it pleased Heaven
To try me with affliction; had he rain'd
All kinds of sores and shames on my bare
head;

Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips; Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes; I should have found in some part of my soul A drop of patience: but alas!

There where I had garner'd up my heart; Where either I must live, or have no life; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up; to be discarded thence! Shakspeare.

LOVE AND BEAUTY.

If lusty love should go in quest of beauty, Where should he find it fairer than in Blanch! If zealous love should go in search of virtue, Where should he find it purer than in Blanch! If love ambitious sought a match of birth, Whose veins bound richer blood than Lady

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What you do,

Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet,

I'd have you do it ever: when you sing,
I'd have you buy and sell so; so give alms;
Pray so; and for the ordering of your affairs,
To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish
you

A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that; move still, still so, and own
No further function: each your doing,
singular in each particular,

Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds,

That all your acts are queens.
LOVER-Best Adviser of a.

Shakspeare.

An old, a grave discreet man, is fittest to discourse of love matters; because he hath likely more experience, observed more, hath a more staid judgment, can better discern, resolve, discuss, advise, give better cautions and more solid precepts, better inform his anditors in such a subject, and by reason of his riper years, sooner divert. Burton.

LOVER-Choice of a.
If I freely may discover
What should please me in my lover,
I would have her fair and witty,
Savouring more of court than city;
A little proud, but full of pity;
Light and humorous in her toying,
Oft building hopes, and soon destroying,
Long, but sweet in the enjoying;

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When it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue. Shakspeare.

LOVE-TOKENS-Influence of.

There is, after all, something in those trifles that friends bestow upon each other which is an unfailing indication of the place the giver holds in the affections. I would believe that one who preserved a lock of hair, a simple flower, or any trifle of my bestowing, loved me, though no show was made of it; while all the protestations in the world would not win my confidence in one who set no value on such little things. Trifles they may be; but it is by such that character and disposition are oftenest revealed. Washington Irving. LOVE-TOKENS-Lasting Spell of.

I wonder how often the executors of old college fellows, or of hard-faced bankers and bureaucrats, have been aggravated by finding in that most secret drawer, which ought to have held a codicil, or a jewel-a tress, a glove, a flower? The searcher looks at the object for a moment, and then throws it into the rubbish-basket, -with a laugh if he is goodnatured, with a curse if he is vicious or disappointed. Let it lie there, though the dead miser valued it above all his bank stock, and

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