There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
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 man's duty to love and to fear God, even without hope of reward or fear of punishment.
Love can be founded upon nature only; or the appearance of it.
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
If we love God while thinking that he does not exist, he will manifest his existence.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy.
Yes, it is a painful lot to be a poet and to love both God and man by the farthest northern seas!
It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
God is love, I said, but art's the possibility of forms, and shadows are the source of identity.
Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.