'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
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Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height read more
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite read more
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.
Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man read more
Food there was none, Shelter there was none but love was there in plenty, Hence I was the richest man in the world.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and read more
A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
