Quotes 1 till 20 of 73.
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.
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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.
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A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover - but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.
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As your lover describes you, so you are.
Source: Sexing the Cherry (2007) 57 -
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
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But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.
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But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
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For like as herbs and trees bringing forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.
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Friends will keep you sane,
Love could fill your heart,
A lover can warm your bed,
But lonely is the soul without a mate. -
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
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