And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you,
How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.
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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Why did she love him? Curious fool!—be still—
Is human love the growth of human will?
Malebranche would have it that not a soul is left; we humbly think that there still are hearts.
Those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor.
We are all born for love.
It is the principle of existence and its only end.
The three most important things to have are faith, hope and love. But the greatest of them is love.
Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.
Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.