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- 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)
- If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.
- John Randolph (1773 - 1833)
- Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
- Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936)
- Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
- Harriet Van Horne
- Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
- Francoise Sagan (1935 - )
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