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- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- Anger is brittle fire that consumes and breaks whatever it engulfs.
- Tish Grier, love and hope and sex and dreams, 09-25-06
- Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
- Rabbi Julius Gordon
- Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also - if you love them enough.
- George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943)
- The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- Paul Eldridge
- Whenever I hear people talking about "liberal ideas," I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
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