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"Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession."
"I have heard that whoever loves is in no condition old. I have heard that whenever the name of man is spoken, the doctrine of immortality is announced; it cleaves to his constitution. The mode of it baffles our wit, and no whisper comes to us from the other side. But the inference from the working of intellect, hiving knowledge, hiving skill,--at the end of life just ready to be born,--affirms the inspirations of affection and of the moral sentiment."
"Perhaps love is only the highest symbol of friendship, as all other things seem symbols of love."
"Self-love is, in almost all men, such an over-weight that they are incredulous of a man's habitual preference of the general good to his own; but when they see it proved by sacrifices of ease, wealth, rank, and of life itself, there is no limit to their admiration."
". . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that my wife was dead, I think that I still would have given myself, undisturbed by that knowledge, to the contemplation of that image, and that my mental conversation with her would have been just as vivid and just as satisfying. "Set me like a seal upon thy heart, love is as strong as death.""
"Love is something eternal."
"Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions."
"The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?"
"Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person."
"All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly."
"Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light."
"Love is the door to eternity."
"Love is perfect in proportion to it's freedom."
"The ones we choose to love become our anchorwhen the hawser of the blood-tie's hacked, or frays."
"Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort."
"Truth without love is imperious self-righteousn ess. Love without truth is cowardly self-indulgence ."
"I've said this over and over again, but I love being in a band."
"Love is the wild card of existence."
"Love is like ice in the hands of children."
"For to cast away a virtuous friend, I call as bad as to cast away one's own life, which one loves best."
