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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I would say that I’m blessed to do what I love with the person that I love.
And oft the pangs of absence to remove
By letters, soft interpreters of love.
Higher than the perfect song
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth.
And the world's so rich in resplendent eyes,
'Twere a pity to limit one's love to a pair.
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear,
And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
Saith she, “Yet liever I were dead,
Than I should lose my maidenhead,
And all for love of men.”
Without a mother, one cannot love. Without a mother, one cannot die.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
Our love is a strong love, baby.
We give it all
And still receive.
In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self.
The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love.