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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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
Spend time on excellence, and love the right,
And don’t let shameful profit master you.
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
"Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.