The surest test of the sincerity of love is that it thinketh no evil.
The surest test of a waning love is that it begins not to content itself
when it sees its object suffer.
The surest test of a dead love is that it forgets how to be jealous.
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The falling-out of lovers true is a renewing may be of love. (1) Still it
is not to be recommended. In fact, it might be said that
Every falling-out of lovers true is a nail in love's coffin. Yet,
A blessing it is that in love we remember the sweet rather than the
bitter. For
Love was ever bitter-sweet (2).
(1) "Amanitum irae amoris integratis est."
--Terrence, Andria, III, 23.
(2) But I supposed innumerable people have said this before. No matter.
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The heart of a lover is like that bottom of a well: all the beauties of
the starry heavens are revealed in it; but when it sheds the light of its
countenance upon it, all else is obliterated.
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