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It's love, it's love that makes the world go round.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: a popular French song in "Chansons Nationales et Populaires de France", vol. II, p. 180
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Oh, tell me whence Love cometh!
Love comes uncall'd, unsent.
Oh, tell me where Love goeth!
That was not Love that went.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Burden of a Woman, found in J.W. Ebsworth's "Roxburghe Ballads"
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I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the hours pass'd away
With the girl I left behind me.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Girl I Left Behind Me
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Greensleeves was all my joy,
Greensleeves was my delight,
Greensleeves was my heart of gold,
And who but Lady Greensleeves?
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: A new Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Greensleeves to the new tune of "Greensleeves", from "A Handful of
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When love's well-timed 'tis not a fault of love;
The strong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wise,
Sink in the soft captivity together.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act III, sc. 1)
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When love once pleads admission to our hearts,
(In spite of all the virtue we can boast),
The woman that deliberates is lost.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Cato (act IV, sc. 1)
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Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
. . . .
Endless torments dwell above thee:
Yet who would live, and live without thee!
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: Rosamond (act III, sc. 2)
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For 'tis impossible
Hate to return with love.
[It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Polinice (II, 4)
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Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's
what you are expected to give--which is everything.
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Polinice (II, 4)
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Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours
For one lone soul another lonely soul,
Each choosing each through all the weary hours,
And meeting strangely at one sudden goal,
Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,
Into one beautiful and perfect whole;
And life's long night is ended, and the way
Lies open onward to eternal day.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Somewhere There Waiteth
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Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Dover Beach
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One sweet, sad secret holds my heart in thrall;
A mighty love within my breast has grown,
Unseen, unspoken, and of no one known;
And of my sweet, who gave it, least of all.
[Fr., Ma vie a son secret, mon ame a son mystere:
Un amour eternel en un moment concu.
La mal est sans remede, aussi j'ai du le taire,
Et elle qui l'a fait n'en a jamais rien su.]
Author: Alexis Felix Arvers
Source: Sonnet, translated by Joseph Knight in "The Athenoeum", Jan. 13, 1906
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Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sum what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
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I cannot love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
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Love spends his all, and still hath store.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. A Party and Entertainment)
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The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Alcove and Garden)
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Could I love less, I should be happier now.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Author: Philip James Bailey
Source: Festus (sc. Garden and Bower by the Sea)
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How many time do I love, again?
Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain
Unravelled from the trembling main
And threading the eye of a yellow star:--
So many time do I love again.
Author: Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Source: How Many Times
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If things on earth may be to heaven resembled,
It must be love, pure, constant, undissembled.
Author: Mrs. Aphra Johnson Behn
Source: And Forgive Us Our Trespasses
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My heart I fain would ask thee
What then is Love? say on.
"Two souls and one thought only
Two hearts that throb as one."
[Ger., Mein Herz ich will dich fragen,
Was ist denn Liebe, sag?
"Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke,
Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag."
Author: E.F.J. von Munch Bellinghausen ("Friedrich Halm")
Source: Der Sohn der Wildniss (act II), translation by W.H. Charlton
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And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as
unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the
Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son
whom he receiveth.
Author: Bible
Source: Hebrews (ch. XII, v. 6-7)
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There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect
in love.
Author: Bible
Source: I John (ch. IV, v. 18)
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Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life
for his friends.
Author: Bible
Source: John (ch. XV, v. 13)
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Love worketh no ill to his neighbour; therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law.
Author: Bible
Source: Romans (ch. XIII, v. 10)
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Relationships are like Rome. Difficult to start out, incredible during the prosperity of the 'Golden Age', and unbearable during the fall. Then, a new kingdom will come along and the whole process will repeat itself until you come across a kingdom like Egypt.. that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love.
Author: Helen Adams Keller
Source: None
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Love is for fools wise enough to take a chance.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love may conquer all, but it needs time as its field general.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love can cure heartbreaks, misfortune, or tragedy. It is the eternal companion.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and then, but the strings remain forever.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love your friend with his faults.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love and relationships are truly one of the most paradoxical aspects of being human. For it is in love that we find the greatest of strengths and the deepest of sorrows. Love can seem to be so fleeting and unachievable yet it remains well within our reach if we only learn how to embrace it's power. To experience true love, we must be willing to open ourselves up and sacrifice part of our heart and part of our soul. We must be willing to give of ourselves freely, and we must be willing to suffer. It is only when we expose our inner selves to the white hot flame of rejection, that love can burn so brightly as to join to souls, melding the two into one, creating a bond that joins forever. It is from this bond that we draw strength eternal and power ever lasting. It is in this thing that we call love that we find the means to achieve greatness, both in ourselves and in our lives.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love is my sword, goodness my armor, and humor my shield.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
Author: Henry van Dyke
Source: None
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Love conquers all, and let us yield to it. —Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori
Author: Publius Vergilius Maro Vergil, Virgil
Source: None
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Love is the same as like except you feel sexier.
Author: Judith Viorst
Source: None
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Love truth, but pardon error.
Author: Francois Voltaire
Source: None
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Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Author: Denis Waitley
Source: None
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
Author: Mae West
Source: None
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Love the earth and sun and animals, Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, Stand up for the stupid and crazy, Devote your income and labor to others ... And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Author: Walt Whitman
Source: None
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Love is a many splintered thing.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Jerry: I love you ... you complete me.
Author: Movie
Source: None
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Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
Author: The Bible
Source: None
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Love one another as Jesus loves you. Try to show kindness in all that you do. Be gentle and loving in deed and in thought, For these are the things Jesus taught.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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Love this Earth as if you won't be here tomorrow; show reverence for your Garden as if you will be here forever.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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To love someone who does not love you, is like shaking a tree to make the dew drops fall.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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