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Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love.
Thomas Jefferson
PoliticianAmerican1743 · 18th century
3.6 · 22 votes · 119 reads
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.
Walter Benjamin
PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century
3.8 · 18 votes · 179 reads
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
Rudyard Kipling
WriterBritish1865 · 19th century
3.7 · 46 votes · 114 reads
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Love is the bridge between two hearts.
Anonymous
5.0 · 26 votes · 172 reads
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Love is the cheapest of religions.
Cesare Pavese
PoetItaly1908 · 20th century
4.8 · 54 votes · 0 reads
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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century
3.2 · 49 votes · 149 reads
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Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
D. H. Lawrence
WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century
3.5 · 8 votes · 140 reads
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Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.
Pierre Beaumarchais
PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century
3.0 · 19 votes · 154 reads
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Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century
3.2 · 42 votes · 74 reads
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Love is the only gold.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
PoetBritish1809 · 19th century
3.8 · 27 votes · 182 reads
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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
Erich Fromm
PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century
4.5 · 45 votes · 193 reads
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Love is the poetry of the senses.
Anonymous
4.7 · 53 votes · 190 reads
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Love is the river of life in the world.
Henry Ward Beecher
PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century
4.7 · 23 votes · 39 reads
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century
3.4 · 61 votes · 33 reads
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
3.6 · 14 votes · 128 reads
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Love is too young to know what conscience is.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.7 · 47 votes · 144 reads
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Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other.
W. H. Auden
PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century
3.4 · 33 votes · 71 reads
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Love laughs at locksmiths.
Proverb
Anonymous
3.8 · 63 votes · 197 reads
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Love makes everything that is heavy light.
Thomas Jefferson
PoliticianAmerican1743 · 18th century
3.0 · 47 votes · 167 reads
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Love may be blind, but it can sure find its way around in the dark!
Anonymous
3.5 · 5 votes · 190 reads
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Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
PoetBritish1874 · 19th century
3.8 · 41 votes · 106 reads
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Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
Henry David Thoreau
PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century
4.9 · 23 votes · 38 reads
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.
Anaïs Nin
AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century
3.6 · 31 votes · 173 reads
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Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Khalil Gibran
PoetAmerican1883 · 19th century
4.4 · 25 votes · 81 reads
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Love rules his kingdom without a sword.
Proverb
Anonymous
3.0 · 25 votes · 156 reads
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Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
Will Rogers
ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century
4.4 · 18 votes · 10 reads
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
3.4 · 33 votes · 58 reads
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Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.
Buddha
LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC
4.4 · 21 votes · 177 reads
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Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century
4.9 · 59 votes · 153 reads
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Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
John Donne
PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century
4.5 · 24 votes · 36 reads
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Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse.
Anonymous
4.7 · 63 votes · 114 reads
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Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden
PoetBritish1631 · 17th century
3.6 · 7 votes · 138 reads
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Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.
John Donne
PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century
3.7 · 22 votes · 103 reads
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Love, and do what you like.
Rudyard Kipling
WriterBritish1865 · 19th century
4.2 · 49 votes · 158 reads
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Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt
PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century
4.3 · 30 votes · 4 reads
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LOVE, the feeling, is the fruit of LOVE, the verb.
Anonymous
4.4 · 6 votes · 193 reads
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Ambrose Bierce
WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century
4.5 · 33 votes · 11 reads
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Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold
JournalistEnglish1803 · 19th century
3.2 · 30 votes · 173 reads
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Lovers are fools, but Nature makes them so.
Elbert Hubbard
AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century
3.4 · 57 votes · 82 reads
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Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
3.5 · 33 votes · 120 reads
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
Anatole France
WriterFrench1844 · 19th century
4.5 · 33 votes · 115 reads
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
Walter Benjamin
PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century
4.7 · 9 votes · 27 reads
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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
4.8 · 53 votes · 15 reads
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Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.
Bertrand Russell
PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century
3.1 · 49 votes · 48 reads
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Many will detest you if you spend all your love on yourself.
Anonymous
4.2 · 12 votes · 61 reads
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Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.4 · 6 votes · 25 reads
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
D. H. Lawrence
WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century
3.3 · 21 votes · 98 reads
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My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind.
Mahatma Gandhi
LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century
4.1 · 50 votes · 88 reads
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My wife and I love each other very much.
Stephen Hawking
PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century
4.6 · 49 votes · 128 reads
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Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Winston Churchill
PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century
4.0 · 36 votes · 85 reads
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Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!
Robert Bresson
Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century
4.1 · 8 votes · 77 reads
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Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined - It dies.
Anonymous
3.8 · 15 votes · 175 reads
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No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
Robert Browning
PoetBritish1812 · 19th century
3.0 · 14 votes · 145 reads
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No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch
NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century
3.7 · 29 votes · 66 reads
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
Henry Louis Mencken
JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century
4.7 · 53 votes · 199 reads
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No three words have greater power than I Love You.
Anonymous
4.2 · 20 votes · 200 reads
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No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.
Cesare Pavese
PoetItaly1908 · 20th century
3.7 · 30 votes · 80 reads
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Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis Bacon
PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century
3.0 · 29 votes · 48 reads
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O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.
John Gay
PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century
3.9 · 36 votes · 90 reads
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Oh, Jacques, we're used to each other, we're a pair of captive hawks caught in the same cage, and so we've grown used to each other. That's what passes for love at this dim, shadowy end of the Camino Real.
T. S. Eliot
PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century
4.2 · 14 votes · 54 reads
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Once you have learned to love, You will have learned to live.
Anonymous
4.6 · 32 votes · 155 reads
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One is very crazy when in love.
Seneca
PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
4.6 · 54 votes · 100 reads
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One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
Jean de la Bruyère
French1645 · 17th century
3.6 · 10 votes · 82 reads
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One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.
Socrates
PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC
3.1 · 14 votes · 141 reads
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Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century
4.3 · 58 votes · 34 reads
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Our first and last love is... self-love. - Bovee, Christian Nevell
Christian Nestell Bovee
AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century
4.7 · 28 votes · 99 reads
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Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.
Pericles
PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC
3.6 · 8 votes · 82 reads
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People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
Marcel Proust
NovelistFrench1871 · 19th century
4.3 · 49 votes · 113 reads
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Elizabeth Bowen
WriterIrish1899 · 19th century
3.3 · 43 votes · 16 reads
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Real love stories never have endings.
Raymond Chandler
WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century
3.6 · 14 votes · 77 reads
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Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery. - Arnold, Matthew
Matthew Arnold
PoetBritish1822 · 19th century
4.8 · 25 votes · 19 reads
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Scratch a lover, and find a foe.
Dorothy Parker
WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century
3.3 · 48 votes · 155 reads
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
PoetGerman1749 · 18th century
3.3 · 50 votes · 67 reads
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Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
Lord Byron
PoetBritish1788 · 18th century
5.0 · 36 votes · 158 reads
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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Samuel Johnson
AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century
4.3 · 14 votes · 25 reads
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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
Virginia Woolf
WriterBritish1882 · 19th century
4.6 · 55 votes · 75 reads
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Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.1 · 35 votes · 120 reads
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Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
Woodrow T. Wilson
PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century
3.7 · 26 votes · 148 reads
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She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.
William Shakespeare
WriterBritish1564 · 16th century
4.8 · 53 votes · 15 reads
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Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can't be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.
Stephen Hawking
PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century
3.1 · 34 votes · 144 reads
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