“Let then no doubt, Celinda, touch,
Much less your fairest mind invade:
Were not our souls immortal made
Our equal loves can make them such.”

—  Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

"An Ode Upon a Question Moved Whether Love Should Continue for Ever", line 121

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