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True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.
Author: Petrarch
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Love builds bridges where there are none.
Author: R. H. Delaney
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The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
Author: Nan Fairbrother
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We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
Author: Sidney Poitier
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Author: Georges Bataille
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Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.
Author: Bhagavad Gita
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Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.
Author: Art Linkletter
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The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
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Soul meets soul on lovers lips.
Author: Dinah Shore
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Give love, and love to your life will flow.
Author: Madeline Bridges
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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
Author: Edward Gibbon
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Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.
Author: Jill Bennett
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There is a time for all things -- except marriage my dear.
Author: Thomas Chatterton
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There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button.
Author: Daniel Chopin
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He is rich that is satisfied.
Author: Thomas Fuller
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Tenderness is a virtue.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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Build a little fence of trust around today; Fill the space with loving deeds, And therein stay. Look not through the sheltering bars Upon tomorrow; God will help thee bear what comes of joy and sorrow.
Author: Mary F. Butts
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Author: Alexis Carrel
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NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
Author: Countess Of Blessington
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Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
Author: Lao-tzu
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
Author: Michael Leunig
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
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Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Author: Collin Quek
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We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
Author: La Bruyere
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
Author: Judy Garland
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Accuracy of statement is one of the first elements of truth; inaccuracy is a near kin to falsehood.
Author: Tryon Edwards
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Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.
Author: Mary Arnim
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Caring is a powerful business advantage.
Author: Scott Johnson
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We would rather have one man or woman working with us than three merely working for us.
Author: J. Dabney Day
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The achievement of your goal is assured the moment you commit yourself to it.
Author: Mack R. Douglas
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I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, "whatever it takes!".
Author: Tom Fatjo
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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.
Author: Eric Hoffer
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You learn to put your emotional luggage where it will do some good, instead of using it to shit on other people, or blow up aeroplanes.
Author: Margaret Drabble
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Fair and softly goes far.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
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The social kiss is an exchange of insincerity between two combatants on the field of social advancement. It places hygiene before affection and condescension before all else.
Author: London Sunday Correspondent
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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
Author: Thomas Adams
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The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
Author: Nicholson Baker
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Author: Florence Nightingale
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Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.
Author: Azel Backus
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It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.
Author: Arthur James Balfour
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Music is love in search of a word.
Author: Sidney Lanier
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Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall.
Author: G. K. Chesterton
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Author: Fr. Jerome Cummings
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We love because it's the only true adventure.
Author: William Gladstone
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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Author: Dr. Karl Menninger
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Author: Og Mandino
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Nunc scio quit sit amor."
Lat., "Now I know what love is.
Author: Virgil
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Author: Marguerite Gardiner Blessington
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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
Author: Christian Nevell Bovee
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