Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your anger who refuse your sway, and those are punished most, who most obey.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
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Blaise Pascal
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
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Jalaluddin Rumi
His heart danced upon her movements like a cork upon a tide. He heard what her eyes said to him from beneath their cowl and knew that in some dim past, whether in life or revery, he had heard their tale before.
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James Joyce
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.
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Unknown
I am my heart’s undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin, and bury it in the depths of my memory, only to have to do it all again tomorrow.
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Emilie Autumn
More Quotes By Matthew Prior
And hope is but a dream of those that wake.
The end must justify the means.
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn; And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.
