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John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester on Love

1647–1680 England

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Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find.

A Letter from Artemisia in Town to Chloe in the Country (1680)

But oh, how slowly minutes roll
When absent from her eyes,
That feed my love, which is my soul:
It languishes and dies.

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