If yet I have not all thy love,
Dear, I shall never have it all.
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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Now thou hast loved me one whole day,
To-morrow when thou leavest, what wilt thou say?
Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
Love, the most generous passion of the mind
The softest refuge innocence can find.
Thrice venomed is the wound when 'tis Love's hand
Inflicts the blow.
Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood, but I as wine.
Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.