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The Laws of Love A Guide To Gallantry PDF
The Laws of Love A Guide To Gallantry PDF
by
James Henry
Containing
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By James Henry
adapted from the Laws of Love
by Horace Raison
Introduction ............................................................... 9
Maxims for a Life of Love ......................................... 13
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Guide to Affairs
Romance Maximizing Maxims
Before .......................................................................... 23
On Love • On an Attachment • Inclination • Caprice
During ......................................................................... 63
Regards • Love Letters • The Rendezvous •
Promises and Oaths
After ............................................................................. 95
Jealousy • Quarrels • Reconciliation • On the Separation
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ON LOVE
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OF AN ATTACHMENT
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INCLINATION
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CAPRICE
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REGARDS
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LOVE LETTERS
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THE RENDEZVOUS
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JEALOUSY
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Horace Raison
Art. 14. Investigations based on jealousy
are founded upon ill will and bound to pro-
duce more of it. Remember that things are
rarely as bad as they seem.
James Henry
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QUARRELS
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RECONCILIATION
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OF THE SEPARATION
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ROMANTIC REFRESHMENTS
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THE HISTORY OF
COURTLY LOVE
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6.
A male does not usually love until he
has arrived at full puberty.
7.
A mourning of two years is ordered for
the death of a lover.
8.
No one without more than sufficient
reason should be of his rights in love.
9.
No one can love without a hope of
reciprocity.
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11.
It is wrong to love one who would not be
taken in marriage.
12.
True love desires no caresses save
from one loved.
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14.
A too easily acquired conquest soon
destroys the charm of love; obstacles
heighten its value.
15.
Everyone who loves turns pale at the sight
of the beloved object.
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17.
A new love destroys the old.
18.
Merit alone is worthy of love.
19.
Love which diminishes falls rapidly, and
is rarely reanimated.
20.
The lover is always timid.
21.
True jealousy always increases the
strength of love.
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23.
Less sleep and less food are the portion of
him who dreams of love.
24.
Every action of the lover ends in thoughts
of the beloved.
25.
True love finds nothing grateful but that
which he knows will please her
loves.
26.
Love can refuse nothing to love.
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28.
A feeble presumption causes the lover to
suspect evil of his love.
29.
An over-excess of pleasures impedes the
birth of love.
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TIMELESS LETTERS OF
LOVE & MARRIAGE
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James Henry
Washington, DC | 2009
MARRIAGE.
17 March, 1823,
Dear Daughter of the Second Generation:
Your letter has come at last, and is full
of interest. The subject on which you write is cer-
tainly the most interesting, perhaps I may say
important, that ever comes between the intel-
lect and the passions; love and matrimony, the
moral rectifier of wild desires ––the reciproc-
ity of natural affection––the chain that binds
infancy and age in social compact. But conjugal
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OF AN OLD MARRIED WOMAN TO A
SENSITIVE YOUNG LADY.