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The Renaissance4 quotes
If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another...upon familiarity will grow more content. — William Shakespeare · 1602Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. — John Donne · 1631When love begins to sicken and decay
It useth an enforcèd ceremony. — William Shakespeare · 1599Now my love is thawed,
Which like a waxen image ’gainst a fire
Bears no impression of the thing it was. — William Shakespeare · 1616