Loves Topics

“Ah, do not mourn,” he said,
“That we are tired, for other loves await us;
Hate on and love through unrepining hours.
Before us lies eternity; our souls
Are love, and a continual farewell.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)

He serveth the servant,
The brave he loves amain;
He kills the cripple and the sick,
And straight begins again.
For gods delight in gods,
And thrust the weak aside;
To him who scorns their charities,
Their arms fly open wide.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)