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01c. 1842 AD

The pulpit and the press have many commonplaces denouncing the thirst for wealth, but if men should take these moralists at their word, and leave off aiming to be rich, the moralists would rush to rekindle at all hazards this love of power in the people, lest civilization should be undone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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02c. 1790 AD

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Goethe / quote

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03c. 1842 AD

All men honour love, because it looks up, and not down.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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04c. 1842 AD

As soon as beauty is sought, not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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05c. 1842 AD

Belief and love,—a believing love, will relieve us of a vast load of care.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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06c. 1842 AD

For faith, and peace, and mighty love / That from the Godhead flow, / Show'd them the life of heaven above / Springs from the earth below.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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07c. 1593 AD

Generally all warlike people are a little idle, and love danger better than travail.

Francis Bacon / quote

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08c. 1642 AD

Glory is so enchanting that we love whatever we associate with it, even though it be death.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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09c. 1790 AD

Hate makes us vehement partisans, but love still more so.

Goethe / quote

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10c. 1790 AD

How dire is love when one is so tortured; and yet lovers cannot exist without torturing themselves.

Goethe / quote

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11c. 1842 AD

Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honour and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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12c. 1842 AD

Life is made up, not of knowledge only, but of love also.... The hues of sunset make life great; so the affections make some little web of cottage and fireside populous, important.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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13c. 1593 AD

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon / quote

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14c. 1790 AD

Love concedes in a moment what we can hardly attain by effort after years of toil.

Goethe / quote

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15c. 1642 AD

Love has no age, as it is always renewing itself.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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16c. 1790 AD

Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights, all the rays emitted from the beloved object, by the burning-glass of fantasy, into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without spots.

Goethe / quote

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17c. 1642 AD

Love is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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18c. 1590 AD

Love is a spirit all compact of fire; / Not gross to sink, but light and will aspire.

William Shakespeare / quote

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19c. 1842 AD

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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20c. 1842 AD

Love is omnipresent in nature as motive and reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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21c. 1790 AD

Love of truth shows itself in being able everywhere to find and value what is good.

Goethe / quote

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22c. 1842 AD

Love, which is the essence of God, is not for levity, but for the total worth of man.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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23c. 1842 AD

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into a usage.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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24c. 1790 AD

Many a discord betwixt man and man the returning seasons soften by degrees into sweetest harmony; but that which bridges over the greatest gap is Love, whose charm unites the earth with heaven above.

Goethe / quote

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