“Sweet are the words of Love, sweeter his thoughts:
Sweetest of all what Love nor says nor thinks.”
Richard Garnett (1835–1906) British scholar, librarian, biographer and poet
De Flagello myrteo. clxv.
“Sweet and lovely, sweeter than the roses in May,
And she loves me, there is nothing more I can say.”
Song Sweet and Lovely
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And she loves me, there is nothing more I can say." by Gus Arnheim?
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The Ways of the Rich and Great.
Notes from Life (1853)
Kate DiCamillo book The Tale of Despereaux
Variant: Reader, nothing is sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name. Nothing.
Source: The Tale of Despereaux (2004)
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Si on me presse de dire pourquoi je l'aimais, je sens que cela ne se peut exprimer qu'en répondant: parce que c'était lui; parce que c'était moi.
Variants: If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
Book I, Ch. 28
Essais (1595), Book I
Source: The Complete Essays
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
"The Shepherd's Wife's Song", line 1, from Mourning Garment (1590); Dyce p. 305.