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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Knightly love is blent with reverence
As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
Oh, where is there the heart but knows
Love's first steps are upon the rose!
For love is like the breathing wind,
That everywhere may entrance find.
All the fairest things of earth,
Art's creations have their birth —
Still from love and death.
They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill, what never dies.
Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
Why is it we don't always recognize the moment when love begins, but we always know when it ends?