When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure,
Hast thou more of pain or pleasure!
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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!

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in read more

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I read more

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.

The porcupine, whom one must handle gloved, May be respected, but is never loved.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

I seek for one as fair and gay,
But find none to remind me,
How blest the read more

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.

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost read more

I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.