Don't let love interfere with your appetite. It never does with mine.
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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Invite the man that loves thee to a feast, but let alone thine enemy.
When the fruit appears the blossom drops off. Love of God is the fruit, and rituals are the blossom.
If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we are loving God.
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them.
She fair, he full of bashfulness and truth,
Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.
He that never had sorrow of love never had joy of it either!
I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care.
So true it is that love of money alone is incapable of dreading death by the sword.