"They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him."
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"All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one."
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"If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved."
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"All or nothing at all, the true lover says, and that's the truth of it. My love will never die, he says. He claims eternity. And rightly. How can it die when it's life itself? What do we know of eternity but the glimpse we get of it when we enter in that bond?"
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"So the lover must struggle for words."
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"The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other."
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"And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover."
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"The thinker without a paradox is like a lover without a feeling: a paltry mediocrity."
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"There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved."
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"It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover."
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"I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours."
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"I love an author the more for having been himself a lover of books."
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"It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much."
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"Happy are the beloved and the lovers and those who can live without love."
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"Nature had gathered her choicest treasures , to draw her lovers into close and confiding communion with her"
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"It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work."
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"A lover teaches a wife all her husband has kept from her."
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"...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover."
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"Time cannot children,poets,lovers tell- measure imagine,mystery,a kiss -not though mankind would rather know than feel"
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"It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!"
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