“O I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away.”
Poems, Innocence, On Raglan Road
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On her wedding day in Mexico, p. 61
Rudolph Valentino: A Wife's Memories of an Icon (2009)
“You know how it is. Someone pretends to love you, and you give too much away.”
Source: Splendors and Glooms

Love and Death (1975)

1790s, Letter to Revd. Dr. Trusler (1799)

“Stay away from the ones you love too much. Those are the ones who will kill you.”
Source: The Goldfinch

“O happy race of mortals,
if your hearts are ruled
as is the universe, by Love!”
O felix hominum genus,
si uestros animos amor
quo caelum regitur regat!
Poem VIII, lines 28-30; translation by W. V. Cooper
Alternate translation:
: How happy is mankind
if the love that orders the stars above
rules, too, in your hearts.
The Consolation of Philosophy · De Consolatione Philosophiae, Book II

Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)