“Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Tale xiv, "The Struggles of Conscience". Compare: "'T is better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all", Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxvii.
Tales in Verse (1812)
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English poet, surgeon, and clergyman 1754–1832Related quotes
“There is nothing better or more necessary than love.”
Note to Stanza 28 part 1
Spiritual Canticle of The Soul and The Bridegroom, Notes to the Stanzas
“There is nothing better than making love under the eyes of the stars.”
Original: Non c'è nulla di migliore che far l'amore sotto gli occhi delle stelle.
Source: prevale.net
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”
Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), Love has always passed me by
“Whoever wants to love is better knowing nothing than too much.”
Source: Lumina and New Lumina (1969), p. 20
Aids to Reflection, "Moral and Religious Aphorisms," Aphorism 25 http://books.google.com/books?id=hEbwXNWXoBoC&q=%22He+who+begins+by+loving+Christianity+better+than+truth+will+proceed+by+loving+his+own+sect+or+church+better+than+Christianity+and+end+in+loving+himself+better+than+all%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1873)
