Are thou a Lover in conceit?

"...liking, falls widely short of love. Love, is what we can neither resist, expel, nor even alleviate, if we should ever so vigorously attempt it... Liking is a flashy flame, which is to be kept alive only by ease and delight. Love, needs not this fewel to maintain its fire, it survives in absence, and disappointments, it endures, unchilled, the wintry blasts of cold indifference and neglect, and continues its blaze, even in a storm fo hatred and ingratitude, and reason, pride or a just sensibility of conscious worth, in vain oppose it."

- Love in Excess, Eliza Haywood

Since everyone often wonder what constitutes love and what it is that makes us love despite circumstances, I thought I'ld share a quote I find to be almost adequate of love's nature.