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Love Is Quotes - Page 157

But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least.

Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.226, Random House

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Samuel Richardson (1804). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings”, p.188

Self-love is a busy prompter.

Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Waller, Butler, Rochester, Roscommon, Otway, Pomfret, Dorset, Stepney, J. Philips, Walsh, Dryden”, p.469