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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No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread.
When love beckons to you, follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
Peace and love are ever in us, being and working; but we be not alway in peace and in love.
Expectation postponed makes the heart sick, but a desire realized is a tree of life.
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
The mightiest love was granted him
Love that does not expect to be loved.
Our love is principle, and has its root
In reason, is judicious, manly, free.
If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try.