“It is not easy to learn much about love, but one thing I discovered, that Lady Harleigh taught me: it is not whom you love that is important, but only that we love.”
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Thomas Tryon 3
British hat maker 1634–1703Related quotes
“and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Mourn, ye Graces and Loves, and all you whom the Graces love. My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow my lady's pet, whom she loved more than her own eyes.”
Lugete, O Veneres Cupidinesque,
Et quantum est hominum venustiorum.
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer, deliciae meae puellae.
III, lines 1–4
Lord Byron's translation:
Ye Cupids, droop each little head,
Nor let your wings with joy be spread:
My Lesbia's favourite bird is dead,
Whom dearer than her eyes she loved.
Carmina
Variant: The important thing is not to think much, but to love much.
"We Could Have Been Sweethearts (You Could Have Been Lonely)" from Spin of the Wheel (1990) · Video performance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srPQliLGM4I
Context: Well you could have been lonely every night now,
Could have cried a whole lot more, been a little bit blue
Oh, you could have been lonely, for your one and only,
You could have loved me as much as I love you.
“I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.”
Source: La Mécanique du cœur