None without hope e'er lov'd the brightest fair,
But love can hope where reason would despair.
-- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773)
-- Epigram
But love can hope where reason would despair.
-- Lord Lyttleton (1709-1773)
-- Epigram
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Where none are beaux,
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and careful scientific procedure fail.
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E. P.... - A law can give security-
but the hope of a date is love... - I don't know where we come from,
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finding love... - I can endure my own despair but not another's hope.
William Walsh,... - Farewell!
For in that word, that fatal word,--howe'er
We promise,
hope, believe,--there breathes despair. -- Lord Byron...
