Hints for Lovers by Arnold Haultain
page 65 of 191 (34%)
page 65 of 191 (34%)
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There is no barrier at which love will balk. Nay more, Love will forgive anything: Did love demand it, love, though it might blush, would not blench. And Often love itself stands amazed at its own divine audacity. Indeed, Love loves to immolate itself for love. Knowing that To love, nothing is common or unclean: for Love, like charity, thinketh no evil. But--remember that It is only the Uranian Aphrodite (5) that dares essay a divine audacity. Nevertheless, Love is the most vulnerable of the emotions, and A love doubtful of itself would be cautiously accepted: it is not a fact that To try to feel one's own pulse, is to make the heart beat irregularly? So, To try to see in a mirror the love light in one's own eyes, is to be-dim it. So, too, If passion is not linked with affection--woe worth the day when the |
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