Perhaps if only once you did enjoy The thousandth part of all the happiness A heart beloved enjoys, returning love, Repentant, you would surely sighing say, “All time is truly lost and gone Which is not spent in serving love.”
TORQUATO TASSOAny time not spent on love is wasted.
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None merits the name of Creator but God and the poet.
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Then amongst flowers and springs, Making delightful sport, Sat lovers without conflict, without flame
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Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
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Not for no cold did freeze, Nor any cloud beguile Th’eternal flowering spring
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Virtue’s guard is labor; ease, her sleep.
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A friend giveth sympathy in trouble.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
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O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees.
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He, full of bashfulness and truth, loved much, hoped little, and desired naught.
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They make their fortune who are stout and wise, Wit rules the heavens, discretion guides the skies.
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A fool is he that comes to preach or prate, When men with swords their right and wrong debate.
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Any time not spent on love is wasted.
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Lost is the time that you don’t spend for love.
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Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.
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O subtle love! a thousand wiles thou hast, by humble suit, by service, or by hire, to win a maiden’s hold,–a thing soon done, for nature framed all women to be won.
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