Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — THOUGHTS ON LOVE [ARTICLE]

THOUGHTS ON LOVE

Divine is love and scorneth worldly* pelf, And gan be bought w.lth nothing but' with self. —Sir Walter Raleigh. If a man should ask me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could, not otherwise be expressed than by making answer, Because it was he, because it was I. There is, beyond all that I am able to say, an inexplicable and fated power, I know not what, that brought about this union.—Montaigne. True love is but a humble, low-born thing. And hath its food served up in enware;It is h thing to walk with, hand in hand, Through the every-dayness of this workday world. —Lowell.— I love thee as the good love heaven. —Longfellow. Love leads to present rapture then to pain; But all, through love, in time is healed again. —Leland. The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the sentiment we feel than in what we arouse.—La. Rochefoucauld. But great loves to the last have pulsea red; All great loves that have ever died: dropped dead. —Helen Hunt.