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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third read more
'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.
Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of read more
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.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire— ... it is goodness, read more
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.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will read more
For in the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
If I know what love is, it is because of you.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.
Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.