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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Anyone who claims to love both the world and the Creator of the world is lying.
Cowards are cruel, but the brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds,
With joy and love triumphing.
Such love
As to his only son, his well-beloved,
The heir to all his wealth, a father shows.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin
As self-neglecting.
Sang in tones of deep emotion,
Songs of love and songs of longing.
Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung
With feigning voice verses of feigning love.
Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.
O, then, what graces in my love do dwell,
That he hath turn'd a heaven unto a hell!
O, take the sense, sweet, of my innocence,
Love takes the meaning in love's conference.
Beauteous Night lay dead
Under the pall of twilight, and the love-star
sickened and shrank.
Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.
I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.