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“What will survive of us is love.”

— Philip Larkin

“Perfect love casteth out fear, the Bible says; but, to speak it reverently, so does perfect hate.”

— John Buchan

“Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

— John Buchan

“If a thing loves, it is infinite.”

— William Blake

“Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or Love in a golden bowl?”

— William Blake

“Eternity is in love with the productions of time.”

— William Blake

“The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.”

— Joseph Joubert

“Open the temple gates unto my love, Open them wide that she may enter in.”

— Edmund Spenser

“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.”

— Paul the Apostle

“true lovers in each happening of their hearts live longer than all which and every who”

— E. E. Cummings

“Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.”

— Rollo May

“’Tis a quiet journey of the heart in pursuit of Nature, and those affections which arise out of her, which make us love each other,—and the world, better than we do.”

— Laurence Sterne

“We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.”

— Paul Tillich

“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Other desires and other hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”

— Emily Brontë

“I love those reformations that prevent revolutions, by keeping pace with the gradual progress of reason and knowledge.”

— Horace Walpole

“The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.”

— Robert Burns

“There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.”

— Thomas Campbell

“Here lies a most beautiful lady, Light of step and heart was she; I think she was the most beautiful lady That ever was in the West Country.”

— Walter de la Mare

“My philosophy is of the heart and not of the mind, and I give myself up, for instance, to those feelings about eternity which come naturally at the bedside of a cherished child…”

— Louis Pasteur

“I hear Siva dancing, dancing in the heart of the world, in my own heart.”

— Romain Rolland

“If our love were but more simple, We should take Him at His word; And our lives would be all sunshine In the sweetness of the Lord.”

— Frederick William Faber

“Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!”

— Omar Khayyam

“Indeed the Idols I have loved so long Have done my credit in this World much wrong: Have drown'd my Glory in a shallow Cup And sold my Reputation for a Song.”

— Omar Khayyam

“What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?”

— Louis Sullivan

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