Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more.

Die Liebe herrscht nicht, aber sie bildet; und das ist mehr!

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Das Märchen (1795), as translated by Hermann J. Weigand in Wisdom and Experience (1949); also translated elsewhere as The Fairy-Tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily, and simply The Tale] | As translated by Thomas Carlyle The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (1832) | Love rules (and reigns) not, but it forms (builds and 'trains'); and that is more! | As quoted in "'Human Immortalities : The Old and the New" by Thaddeus Burr Wakeman, in The Open Court Vol. XX, No. 1 (January 1906), p. 104

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