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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He loved his kind, but sought the love of few,
And valued old opinions more than new.
Lo, one who loved true honour more than fame,
A real goodness, not a studied name.
It hath and schal ben everemor
That love is maister wher he wile.
For love is mor than gold or gret richesse;
Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.
...if love hath filled all the corners of our soul, it alone is able to do all the work of God.
Sacred art helps man find his own center, that kernel whose nature is to love God.
Your old-fashioned tirade—
loving, rapid, merciless—
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.
After loving you so much, can I forget
you for eternity, and have no other choice?
Jesus' life proved, divinely and scientifically, that God is Love
When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.
If you want to see the love of your life, look in the mirror.
Reality is always the story of a past, and what I love about the past is—it’s over.