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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It is a miserable thing to love where one hates; and yet it is not inconsistent.
The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.
Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world.
Always act in such a way as to secure the love of your neighbour.
History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.
“Love cannot be owed,” said the retreating shadow. “It can only be given.”
There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.
The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.
It was said that I refused to grant any value to the maternal instinct and to love. This was not so.