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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, regards not labors, strives toward more than it attains, argues not of impossibility, since it believes that it may and can do all things. Therefore it avails for all things, and fulfils and accomplishes much where one not a lover falls and lies helpless.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength.... It is therefore able to undertake all things, and it completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who does not love would faint and lie down.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Love gives itself; it is not bought.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Thomas à Kempis Love Him, and keep Him for thy Friend, who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Alphonse Karr Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Lorrie Moore Love is a fever, she said. And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • Joan Crawford Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
    Joan Crawford
    American basketball player (1904 - 1977)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as the are not.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alexander Smith Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed; such a vow in both cases excludes us from all inquiry.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Herbert Spencer Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Bruce Lee Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
    Artist of Life
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Emily Brontë Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Louis Aragon Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
    Louis Aragon
    French poet (1897 - 1982)
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  • Ellen Key Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.
    Ellen Key
    Zweeds writer (1849 - 1926)
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  • Washington Irving Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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