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Isaac Watts Hymn Writer, Poet
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"Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!"

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Glenda Green Artist
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"Love is a gift, a miracle, a mystery. You are led to its threshold by your affinities, by your inclinations, and by the yearnings of your heart, although its power and presentation is by grace, not by expectation, demand, or requirement. Love is the ultimate paradox, for it is the lamb that is also the lion. Love is the ultimate power, which resides in surrender."

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Friedrich Schiller Playwright, Poet
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"Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotism at solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation. Egotism sows for gratitude, love for the ungrateful. Love gives, egotism lends; and love does this before the throne of judicial truth, indifferent if for the enjoyment of the following moment, or with the view to a martyr's crown--indifferent whether the reward is in this life or in the next."

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Lily Cole Model, Actress
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"I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do - but I've also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
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"Clever people, people who are cunning, do not know what love is because their minds are so sharp, because they are so clever, because they are so superficial - which means to be on the surface, and love is not a thing that exists on the surface."

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John Donne Poet, Cleric
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"...Whatever dies was not mixed equally, If our two loves be one Or thou and I love so alike That none can slacken, none can die."

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Joyce Brothers Psychologist
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"Love, real love, is not simply a state of bliss. It is an ever-changing state, the result of time and emotional development, of trust and commitment."

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Joseph Butler Philosopher, Theologian
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"The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested or disinterested, because the objects of them all are equally self or somewhat else."

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