Love Moderately

                                Friar Lawrence.             

                                These violent delights have violent ends;

                                And their triumph die, like the fire and powder,

                                Which as they kiss consume.  The sweetest honey

                                Is loathsome in its own deliciousness,

                                And in the taste confounds the appetite.

                                Therefore love moderately: long love doth so;

                                Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

                                William Shakespeare, 

                                Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene V   

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