“All mankind love a lover.”
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“If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen.”
“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
“Young love is a flame very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
“To love beauty is to see light.”
“Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
“If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.”
“If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
“Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.”
“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.”
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.”
“No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”
“No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.”
“All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.”
“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”
“However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.”
“I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.”
“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
“Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.”