"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
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"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
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"You're something between a dream and a miracle."
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"Light tomorrow with today!"
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"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
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"Silence is the best response to a fool."
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"I love you for the part of me that you bring out."
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"Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully."
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"I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so."
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"The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust."
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"A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips."
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"Art is much, but love is more."
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"Two human loves make one divine."
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"Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words."
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace."
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"Eyes of gentianellas azure, Staring, winking at the skies."
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"No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books."
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"With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature."
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"And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief."
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