Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.
Love Quotes
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Two of the best-known love quotes are flagged here as misattributed. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” is credited to Confucius. The oldest English version anyone has found is from a 1982 alumni magazine, where the man quoted was himself passing it along from an unnamed source. “God made beer because he loves us and wants us to be happy” is credited to Benjamin Franklin. It looks like a garbled version of what he wrote about wine in 1779, in a letter to André Morellet.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.
God seeks comrades and claims love,
the Devil seeks slaves and claims obedience.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.
To know, to esteem, to love—and then to part,
Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart!
There is no sudden entrance into Heaven.
Slow is the ascent by the path of Love.