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

— G. Stanley Hall

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War has given applied psychology a tremendous impulse. This will, on the whole, do good, for psychology, which is the largest and last of the sciences, must not try to be too pure.

G. Stanley Hall (1919)

Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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