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Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. - Kahlil Gibran, The Vision Not from the whole wide world I chose thee, Sweetheart, light of the land and the sea! The wide, wide world could not inclose thee, For thou art the whole wide world to me. - Richard Watson Gilder, Song I love her doubting and anguish; I love the love she withholds, I love my love that loveth her, And anew her being moulds. - Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day (pt. III, song I) Love, Love, my Love. The best things are the truest! When the earth lies shadowy dark below Oh, then the heavens are bluest! - Richard Watson Gilder, The New Day (pt. IV, song I) We love because it's the only true adventure. - Nikki Giovanni I love you because the Earth turns round the sun because the North wind blows north sometimes because the Pope is Catholic and most Rabbis Jewish because winters flow into springs and the air clears after a storm - Nikki Giovanni, Resignation Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea. - Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin To love one who loves you, to admire one who admires you,--in a word, to be the idol of one's idol--is exceeding the limit of human joy; it is stealing fire from heaven, and deserves death. - Madame Delphine Gay de Girardin Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe He who cannot love must learn to flatter. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We are shaped and fashioned by what we love. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where confidence is wanting, the most beautiful flower in the garland of love is missing. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Girls we love for what they are; Young men for what they promise to be. [Ger., Man liebt an dem Madchen was es ist, Und an dem Jungling was er ankundigt.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Wahrheit und Dichtung (III, 14) It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms. [Ger., Es ist eine der grossten Himmelsgaben, So ein lieb' Ding im Arm zu haben.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. [Ger., Und Lust und Liebe sind die Fittige zu grossen Thaten.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris (II, 1, 107) Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Torquato Tasso (II, 3, 76) If I love you, what business is that of yours? [Ger., Wenn ich dich lieb habe, was geht's dich an?] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister (IV, 9) As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us. - Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (act IV, l. 255) The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (l. 29) Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life--my all that's mine! - Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit (st. 39) To love is everything; love is God. - Leon Gozlan I love a lassie, a bonnie, bonnie lassie, She's as pure as the lily in the dell. She's as sweet and the heather, The bonnie, bloomin' heather, Mary, ma Scotch Blue-bell. - Gerald Grafton and Sir Harry Lauder (MacLennan), I Love a Lassie Whoe'er thou art, thy lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be. - George Granville, Lord Landsdowne, Inscription for a Figure representing the God of Love, see "Genuine Works", (1732), I, 129 Displaying page 14 of 39 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 [14] 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39
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